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UFO mania: "Lizard People" Underground in Los Angeles.....

"Lizard People's Catacomb City Hunted: Engineer Sinks Shaft Under Fort Moore Hill to Find Maze of Tunnels and Priceless Treasures of Legendary Inhabitants."

Busy Los Angeles, although little realizing it in the hustle and bustle of modern existence, stands above a lost city of catacombs filled with incalculable treasure and imperishable records of a race of humans further advanced intellectually than the highest type of present day peoples, in the belief of G. Warren Shufelt, geophysicist mining engineer now engaged in an attempt to wrest from the lost city deep in the earth below Fort Moore Hill the secrets of the Lizard People of legendary fame in the medicine lodges of the American Indian.

So firmly does Shufelt and a little staff of assistants believe that a maze of catacombs and priceless golden tablets are to be found beneath downtown Los Angeles that the engineer and his aids have already driven a shaft 250 feet into the ground, the mouth of the shaft being on the old Banning property on North Hill street, overlooking Sunset Boulevard, Spring street and North Broadway.

And so convinced is the engineer of the infallibility of a radio x-ray perfected by him for detecting the presence of minerals and tunnels below the surface of the ground, an apparatus with which he says he has traced a pattern of catacombs and vaults forming the lost city, that he plans to continue sending his shaft downward until he has reached a depth of 1000 feet before discontinuing operations.

Shufelt learned of the legend of the Lizard People after his radio X-Ray had led him hither and yon, over an area extending from the Public Library on West Fifth street to the Southwest Museum, on MuseumDrive, at the foot of Mt. Washington.

"I knew I was over a pattern of tunnels," the engineer explained yesterday, "and I had mapped out the course of the tunnels, the position of large rooms scattered along the tunnel route, as well as the position of deposits of gold, but I couldn't understand the meaning of it."

"came out of the Southwest, destroying all in it's path," (continued on Page 5, Column 2) "...the path being several hundred miles wide."

The Lizard People, the legends has it, regard the lizard as a symbol of long life.

"My radio X-ray pictures of the tunnels and rooms, which are subsurface voids, and of gold pictures with perfect corners, sides and ends, are scientific proof of their existence," Shufelt said.

 

"However, the legendary story must remain speculative unearthed by excavation."

"the frog of a horses hoof. The contour of hills surrounding this region forms such a design, substantiating Shufelt's findings," he said.

Shufelt's radio device consists chiefly of a cylindrical glass case inside which a plummet attached to a copper wire held by the engineer sways continually, pointing he asserts, toward minerals or tunnels below the surface of the ground, and then revolves when over mineral or swings in prolongation of the tunnel when above the excavation.

 

He has used the instrument extensively in mining fields, he said."

NEAR COLISION WITH AN ALIEN CRAFT OVER PERTH AUSTRALIA

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There seems to be a recent increase in UFO sightings around the world, and one interesting one from Down Under. The Australian Transportation Safety Board has the following report.  Near collision between an unknown object and De Havilland DHC-8, VH-XFX, Perth Airport, Western Australia on 19 March 2014. Investigation number: AO-2014-052.  On 19 March 2014, at about 0913 Western Standard Time (WST), a De Havilland DHC-8, registered VH-XFX, was on approach to Perth Airport from Kambalda, Western Australia. When about 23 km north-northeast of Perth, at about 3,800 ft. above mean sea level (AMSL), the crew sighted a bright strobe light directly in front of the aircraft.  The light appeared to track towards the aircraft and the crew realized that the light was on an unknown object, possibly an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The pilot took evasive action turning towards the west to avoid a collision with the object. The object passed about 20 m horizontally and 100 ft. vertically from the aircraft.  The pilot reported that the object was cylindrical in shape and grey in colour. It was at about 3,700 ft. AMSL and in controlled airspace. The crew did not receive a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) alert. The airspace below 3,500 ft. AMSL was military restricted airspace.  The ATSB was advised that the Australian Defence Force was not operating UAVs and was not aware of any UAV operations in the area at the time of the incident. The ATSB was not able to confirm the details of the object or identify any UAV operator in the area at that time.  UAVs are increasingly available to recreational operators and their operation outside of the regulations may pose a significant risk to aviation safety.  For anyone going to cry cover-up, it is not the responsibility of the ATSB to investigate UFOs, only air travel safety and identification of existing and potential threats to safety.  “The ATSB was not able to confirm the details of the object or identify any UAV operator in the area at that time.”  But that does not rule out the possibility of a privately owned unmanned drone either. Never the less this is an interesting report.  NOTE: The above image is a rendering  and special thanks to Henry Paterson.

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MUFON UPDATE

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I am glad to announce that I am in discussion with the leadership of MUFON about the Billy Meier UFO case. I have informed them that there are at least three more highly credible professionals in the fields of science and technology, who are now endorsing the authenticity of the Meier case and its evidence. These people wish to stay in the background for now but may be willing to participate in a public presentation with MUFON regarding the authenticity of the case.

SInce my contacts at MUFON have assured me that there is no willful complicity at this time with any parties to hide or suppress the Meier case, they also agree that this is indeed the most propitious time to make a definitive assessment and publicly express their position. I have asked that should MUFON disagree that the case is authentic, they present credible evidence that supports an opposing position and substantiates any claims against the authenticity of Meier’s evidence.

I should also make it clear that it is not necessary for any of the parties to agree with, or promote, the Meier case and its information, only that the matter of its authenticity be settled for the expressed purpose of…letting the public determine the truth, validity and value of the information, prophecies, predictions, spiritual teaching, etc., for themselves.

Copyright 2011 – All Rights Reserved. Please do not copy or reproduce the content on this blog for re-publication without the author/s written permission. Thank you.

MUFON UPDATE originally appeared on They Fly on June 13, 2014.

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UFO SIGHTING OVER KENT JUNE 7, 2014

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Daily 2 Cents: Coast Guard Humanoid Encounter — We Nearly Blew-Up North Carolina — What Did I See?

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Former Coast Guard sailor reveals encounter with ‘humanoid creature’

A former U.S. Coast Guard sailor recalls an incident with a “transparent, oval-shaped craft” that moved within 200 yards of his vessel that revealed a “humanoid pilot” before quickly disappearing, according to June 13, 2014, testimony in Case 57018 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The incident occurred in late 1978 or early 1979 near Cuba on a “law enforcement Coast Guard cutter” while the witness was standing near the fantail with another sailor when the object was first seen.

“I witnessed a transparent, oval-shaped craft that cut across the back of the ship maybe 100 to 200 yards away,” the witness stated.
The witness got a good look at the craft.

“I could clearly see a frame inside the craft and the humanoid pilot as he abruptly turned to look at us.”
But the sighting was quick.

“As it glided from off to the backside to the back of the ship, in the blink of an eye it vanished. Many years later I found something online that looked exactly like the creature I witnessed.”

No images or illustrations were included with the MUFON report. MUFON International is investigating. Read more at OpenMindsTV

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The Day We Nearly Blew-Up North Carolina

A part of North Carolina came dangerously close to being obliterated in 1961. A newly declassified report discusses a US bomber that broke in half while flying over the state in January of that year, causing the two nuclear bombs it was carrying to plummet to the ground near Goldsboro—and reveals that those bombs came much closer to detonation than was previously known. A parachute opened for one of the bombs, which landed intact; the safing pins that conducted power from a generator had been pulled, preventing a blast. Still, it completed five of the six steps to detonation, Fox News reports. Had two cockpit wires touched as the plane disintegrated, it could have exploded. As for the second bomb, it landed in a freefall, which caused the switch to flip to the “armed” position, RT reports.

What kept it from going off? “The shock also damaged the switch contacts, which had to be intact for the weapon to detonate,” the National Security Archive’s Bill Burr explains. The incident was first mentioned in a book by Eric Schlosser last year, but the report confirms just how close the US came to devastation. As CNN points out, the MK39 bombs had an explosive yield of 3.8 megatons; the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 0.01 and 0.02 megatons, respectively. “There would have been a 100% kill zone for 8.5 miles in every direction,” said the Air Force weapons specialist tasked with disarming the bombs. “By the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted,” Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said at the time. – Newser

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NASA Designs ‘Warp Speed’ Spacecraft

The impressive designs are based on Harold White’s real-life work developing a genuine warp drive.

White, who is head of NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Team, has been attempting to go where no physicist has gone before by designing a warp drive that will enable spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light.

These new conceptual drawings based on his work were created by artist Mark Rademaker who took over 1,600 hours to make them. The impressive warp speed spaceship certainly looks the part and wouldn’t seem out of place in an episode of Star Trek.

“There’s no speed limit on the expansion and contraction of space,” said White whose warp drive concept involves bending space both in front and behind the vehicle to propel it forwards.

“You can actually find a way to get around what I like to call the 11th commandment: Thou shall not exceed the speed of light.” Read more at CNN

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What Did I See?

My wife and I were asleep and I heard tapping on the window that woke me up. I just rolled over and I mumbled “ignore it babe” vaguely in my sleep. It was very annoying because I had the next day off so I was actually planning to have a lay in — my one day off and I get woken up in the middle of the night. Rolling over and checking my phone time it says 2:34AM. I sense that I needed to use the bathroom and make my way out of bed. While opening the bedroom door I can see small red lights that appeared in our hallway and by now I’m fully awake. The lights were only there for a few seconds but were very bright and I shrugged it off as car lights. I know I wasn’t thinking right and a part of me knew that it wasn’t, but I honestly just wanted to do my business and then go back to bed.

Halfway down the hall I get to our toilet and fling on the light. I do my business and wash my hands. While wiping my hands onto our towel I quickly see something run past the door. I mean fucking run! We have no dogs because im allergic and we don’t have any kids yet.

Immediately my back is up and I slowly creep out of the hallway and fling on the lights. (so many horror films i’ve seen just walk out in the dark to investigate like wtf?) I make my way slowly to the bedroom and I double lock the bedroom door.

I figured that it was just some animal that somehow found their way into our house and me turning on the lights scared it away. I’d also like to see an animal undo a double locked door. I thought that i’d deal with whatever aftermath tomorrow morning.

I must have fallen asleep because I awoke to the light just creeping in from the curtains. Turning over to cuddle my wife I can see shes already awake and staring up at me. Her eyes straight away go from looking at me to the middle of the room.

In the corner of the room I saw the light creeping over to what looked like a small child, but it was shaped differently. It was hairless, had a massive head and it’s arms appeared to be longer than its legs. I imagined when it walked its arms must have dragged behind him or whatever. It was very very very skinny and it was crouched over on its knees just looking at the floor.

My eyes adjusted to what i’m actually seeing and the fear and the dread washed over me. I grabbed my revolver that I leave on the bed stand in one quick move and shakily pointed it at this being. My wife quickly turned on the bed stand light. It started to lift its head up to me and had the biggest..blackest eyes i’ve ever seen. It only had a slit for a mouth and it didn’t have any ears at all. Its still got its hands over its knees but now staring straight at me and for a second I was transfixed to staring into those eyes. I honestly felt that it was scanning me or searching me with them.

It got up and it must have been around the height to come to my hip. It’s still staring at me and I swear to you there was a very bright flash and the thing was gone. I don’t know where it went, how it managed to get through 2 double locked doors. Where was the light? What even was the light? Where did the thing go?!

I can’t explain it but after the light there wasn’t anything but my wife and i. I searched the dresser incase it may have jumped in there but nothing. I quickly grabbed my wife and we frantically went over to the neighbors house. Banging on the door my neighbor (that i’ve only met twice) came to the door saying “do you know what time it is?! oh shit. come inside”

He says he must have known something had happened for us to be running over there in the middle of the night. We’re now in his kitchen and i broke down in tears. I explained everything and how I failed at protecting my wife. I stressed my concern and confusion as to what this thing is or how it managed to get in and even out.

My neighbor opened the whisky bottle and said that we can stay there for the rest of the night. Him and I sat up talking while my wife curled up next to me on the sofa. She didn’t want to go anywhere without me or have her out of my sight. The next morning the three of us went back to our house and throughly searched the place. I straight away took the hallway.

We didn’t find a single trace of a break in. Everything was where it was left and nothing was out of place.

Explanations to what I saw? – Reddit.com

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Strange Object ‘Floating’ Through Milwaukee

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2010-02-02 – 6:23PM: The sighting occurred on a side street in an industrial neighborhood, a few blocks from the intersection of Capital and Palmer in Milwaukee, WI. A friend was in a meeting with a local community organization and I decided to stay in the car to make some work related phone calls. I had just finished up with the phone calls when I decided to step out of the car for a cigarette. I leaned up against the driver-side door of the car facing the South as I smoked. I noticed movement some movement to my right, and looked in that direction. An object anywhere from 4 to 5.5 feet long oriented perpendicular to the ground like so: | was floating about 15 feet off the ground. The object was moving from the West to the East at about 6 – 8 miles per hour with a very shallow guide slope, about 1 degree.

At first I thought that the object might be a kite cut loose from its string with how smoothly and quietly it was gliding along, until it passed underneath some power lines and a few feet later it ascended vertically by about 5 feet to clear the top of a building that it was headed for. It then moved parallel to the top of the building for about 300 feet until my view of the object became obstructed by another taller building to my left. The object was an imperfect cylindrical shape with a few small protrusions here and there.

When I realized that the object was not a wayward kite, I thought about reports of flying humanoids. However, the protrusions didn’t seem to fit with what was described in those accounts – additionally there was a brief metallic flash as light from a lamp post reflected off of the object – this does not seem to fit with the description of flying humanoids either. Other than the brief metallic flash the object was entirely black. The closest the object’s path took it to me was about 120 feet and I was able to observe the object for about 2 minutes, so I had ample opportunity to try to identify the object and for the life of me I cannot think of anything that this object could have been. Even after going home and doing a Google image search for UAVs nothing I have ever seen can match up with the description of this object. My reaction to this object was initially one of pure curiosity until after I had dropped my friend off at his place, then I became extremely nervous and scared.

NOTE: This report was initially posted on the MUFON CMS a few weeks after the encounter. I received an email with a similar description a few weeks after it was reported to MUFON (email acknowledged the MUFON report). The email was supposedly sent by a friend of the witness. Though I had some doubts, I was told that the witness had been very ill since the encounter and asked their friend to make inquiries. I never received a follow-up correspondence.

The object may have been a bio-form of some type…possibly similar to the flying ray-shaped objects that I have been researching since 2008. Lon

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Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/06/strange-object-floating-through.html

Majestic 12: Is This Legendary UFO Conspiracy U.S. Air Force Disinformation? (VIDEO)

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The Grinning Man Of Elizabeth New Jersey

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UFO Intrusion at North Hudson Park With Aliens Who Looked Like Kids In Snowsuits

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Intrusion at North Hudson Park, 1975

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Location: North Bergen New Jersey
Date: January 12 1975

Time: 02:30 a.m.

 It was 72-year old George O’Barski’s custom to drive to a nearby all-night dinner for a late snack before returning home. To get there, he’d drive through North Hudson Park to avoid traffic lights. On this night in January 1975, he had barely turned into the park when his radio began to emit heavy static. He slowed down to fiddle with it, grumbling to himself about the anticipated high cost of repair. His left hand window was half-open, as it was a mild night. The radio then cut out altogether, just as other things began to happen:
“I heard this damned noise. I thought: ‘What the hell was that? No trucks (are) allowed in here…’and I saw over my (left) shoulder this—thing coming. It looked like a great big pancake that had puffed up, you know? It was flat, I would say, maybe six feet high, and the thing landed, right in front of me, in the park!
“There’s some trees there (along the sidewalk on the left)…It landed just the other side of the trees. Then when I came ahead, there’s an opening there, and Jeez! I seen ‘em there, you know? I seem ‘em, people come right down!…It came in about ten feet off the ground, and that’s when they came out, and then it settled to the ground…but the little guys came out before the rest came down.
“It was off the ground, and I seen this thing come down like a stairway, or ladders—I don’t know what the hell it was—and I seen all these guys come down…like kids coming down a fire escape. I’d guess, in round figures, then—might have been eight, nine, eleven. They were short! Maybe three and a half feet tall…and they had helmets on, or something. I couldn’t see their faces…But you could see their arms—they had gloves on, I could see that. The whole thing was a uniform, or something…It was dark (in color). And they had feet, legs same as any other person—only they were short!
“They had these little shovels…like a handle on, like little bags, and they had these little shovels…might have been large spoons, or something—and they were working like little beavers, you know? All over the ground…Well, they filled these little bags up…There was light all through there because there were a lot of windows all the way around, like slits…maybe a foot wide, six to eight inches, and spaced apart about a foot, a foot and a half.
“It was three minutes and they must’ve scooted up. As I say, they got out before it landed, got filled up, and by the time it landed they were able to get back in, right? And they took off. It was that quick. I hear this droning, you know? And I notice this thing—it just took off…and there was no propellers on it, or nothing! It just seemed to float, but boy! It went just like that!…I thought, man, either I am going crazy, or something’s awful wrong going on there, you know?…You know, even after I got through the park, (if) I seen a cop I wouldn’t ‘ve said a thing!”
George forgot the late snack and headed straight for home. He went back the next day and found several little holes on the ground. They were about four inches, five inches wide, and six inches deep. O’Barski said he saw several antenna-like projections standing straight up above the dome. The sides of the object he explained were approximately six feet high, with another two or three feet at the highest point of the dome. He said the color of the object was dark, or black, and he described another “window,” or foot-wide band of light, that encircled the object where the sides and the dome met; this emitted the same incandescent colored light as the vertical panels around the sides. The doorway from which the occupants emerged was on the side of the object facing George’s closest position; it opened inward and was in complete darkness, about as wide as two of the vertical “windows.”
The object did not descend all the way to the ground, but came down to about four feet, at which time the figures quickly re-entered in pairs. They looked like “little kids in snowsuits,” according to O’Barski, complete with shoes or boots that did not appear to be separate from the rest of the uniform. The covering over their heads was more like a ski-hood than an actual helmet. O’Barski said that the humming noise was more pronounced during the arrival and departure of the object, and he compared it to “a refrigerator that’s starting up.”

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Death Valley Encounter With 7 Foot Tall Pharaoh Like Alien Who Emerges From Pyramid Like UFO

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This is what my sister and I experienced in Death Valley Ca. I’m always looking for input from anyone who might have any information on it. My experience involves contact with beings from parallel universes. It happened in Death Valley National Park about three years ago up to the present. My sister is also involved. We would go down to the park quite a bit even before our encounter. Around 2007 or so I began to get sick when we would go to the park. I would get nauseous and we blamed it on car sickness but it only happened in the park. We kept guessing about air pressure etc but couldn’t come up with anything. A year or so later while driving along the salt flat my sister began to see an image of a thing that looked like a tall skinny vase stuck in the ground like a post. It had triangle flaps as if punched through from the inside with a can opener. There were one above another constituting 8 in all, equidistant on four sides of the device. Red light came from under the flaps which pointed downward and white light came from the top of the “vase”. The thing was round and had a v shape to the top. Over the next year she saw a lot of visions and would go into a trance like state sometimes mumbling strange words. A recurring character in her visions was a tall man about 7+ feet tall in a coarsely woven robe reaching to his ankles or there about. His eyes were had black irises, his hair was strait and black cropped evenly just above the shoulders. The thing that stood out was the size of his eyes, about twice the size of a normal persons. He resembled statues of the pharaoh Akhenaten in many ways. As time went on my sister saw other people that looked like the man in the robe but more human looking and smaller. Eventually one night at badwater basinmy sister began to see the man’s face , we walked out onto the salt flat and she tried speaking to the vision she was seeing. Nothing happened at first but then the man started speaking in some odd language very fast and excitedly. Our next encounter was two weeks later. My sister gets sick and disoriented in the valley as well and the encounter at badwater made her pretty sick. This time when she saw the vision , the man spoke broken English,he said his name was Kahalt he told her about his ancestors coming to the world he was on from another, and installing many devices like the one she saw on parallel worlds in that aria 5,000 years ago. The problem was that the devices worked on a machine brain interface, connecting peoples brains and other machines together across various worlds. The main purpose of the machines apparently was to allow people to “travel” as he put it between parallel worlds. What happened is that the brain interface was designed to fit Kahalt’s people not the local people found on that cluster of parallel worlds, and it resulted in killing off many worlds and filling others with sick or dieing people depending on how compatible they were with the machine. 

Dancing fireball UFO – Spacing Out! Episode 77

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A young girl recorded video of a dancing fireball UFO in England. That and other UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

Stories discussed in this episode:

• Couple watching for the ISS sees UFO instead
• World’s oldest man, a UFO believer, dies at 111
• Disc-shaped UFO over the ocean in Australia
• Girl records video of a dancing fireball UFO

The post Dancing fireball UFO – Spacing Out! Episode 77 appeared first on Openminds.tv.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/dancing-fireball-ufo-spacing-episode-77/28260

Daily UFO Headlines 6/13/14

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• Have an out-of-this world experience at the UFO Festival in Edinburg – KGBT-TV
• ALIENS: Conference focuses on contact with extraterrestrial matter – Press-Enterprise
• Cathie Pelletier dives into alien topics – The Tennessean
• Wisconsin native to share UFO history – The Oshkosh Northwestern
• Censorship on cruise control – Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-61314/28274

UFO CONTACT THROUGH THE MIND – PART II

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Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/ufo-contact-0612

AS PART OF AN ALIEN INVASION I WAS ABDUCTED

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CHINA AND RUSSIA WORRIED ABOUT SPACE WARS AND SPACE WEAPONS

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Pentagon Preparing For Mass Civil Breakdown With Militarized  ‘Operational Tools’

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The Pentagon is funding social science research to model risks of “social contagions” that could damage US strategic interests. Photograph: Jason Reed/REUTERS

A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies. The multi-million dollar programme is designed to develop immediate and long-term “warfighter-relevant insights” for senior officials and decision makers in “the defense policy community,” and to inform policy implemented by “combatant commands.”

Launched in 2008 – the year of the global banking crisis – the DoD ‘Minerva Research Initiative’ partners with universities “to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the US.”

Among the projects awarded for the period 2014-2017 is a Cornell University-led study managed by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research which aims to develop an empirical model “of the dynamics of social movement mobilisation and contagions.” The project will determine “the critical mass (tipping point)” of social contagians by studying their “digital traces” in the cases of “the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Russian Duma elections, the 2012 Nigerian fuel subsidy crisis and the 2013 Gazi park protests in Turkey.”

 

Twitter posts and conversations will be examined “to identify individuals mobilised in a social contagion and when they become mobilised.”

 

Another project awarded this year to the University of Washington “seeks to uncover the conditions under which political movements aimed at large-scale political and economic change originate,” along with their “characteristics and consequences.” The project, managed by the US Army Research Office, focuses on “large-scale movements involving more than 1,000 participants in enduring activity,” and will cover 58 countries in total.

Last year, the DoD’s Minerva Initiative funded a project to determine ‘Who Does Not Become a Terrorist, and Why?’ which, however, conflates peaceful activists with “supporters of political violence” who are different from terrorists only in that they do not embark on “armed militancy” themselves. The project explicitly sets out to study non-violent activists: 

• “In every context we find many individuals who share the demographic, family, cultural, and/or socioeconomic background of those who decided to engage in terrorism, and yet refrained themselves from taking up armed militancy, even though they were sympathetic to the end goals of armed groups. The field of terrorism studies has not, until recently, attempted to look at this control group. This project is not about terrorists, but about supporters of political violence.”

The project’s 14 case studies each “involve extensive interviews with ten or more activists and militants in parties and NGOs who, though sympathetic to radical causes, have chosen a path of non-violence.”

I contacted the project’s principal investigator, Prof Maria Rasmussen of the US Naval Postgraduate School, asking why non-violent activists working for NGOs should be equated to supporters of political violence – and which “parties and NGOs” were being investigated – but received no response.

Similarly, Minerva programme staff refused to answer a series of similar questions I put to them, including asking how “radical causes” promoted by peaceful NGOs constituted a potential national security threat of interest to the DoD.

Among my questions, I asked: 

• “Does the US Department of Defense see protest movements and social activism in different parts of the world as a threat to US national security? If so, why? Does the US Department of Defense consider political movements aiming for large scale political and economic change as a national security matter? If so, why? Activism, protest, ‘political movements’ and of course NGOs are a vital element of a healthy civil society and democracy – why is it that the DoD is funding research to investigate such issues?”

Minerva’s programme director Dr Erin Fitzgerald said “I appreciate your concerns and am glad that you reached out to give us the opportunity to clarify” before promising a more detailed response. Instead, I received the following bland statement from the DoD’s press office 

• “The Department of Defense takes seriously its role in the security of the United States, its citizens, and US allies and partners. While every security challenge does not cause conflict, and every conflict does not involve the US military, Minerva helps fund basic social science research that helps increase the Department of Defense’s understanding of what causes instability and insecurity around the world. By better understanding these conflicts and their causes beforehand, the Department of Defense can better prepare for the dynamic future security environment.”

In 2013, Minerva funded a University of Maryland project in collaboration with the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to gauge the risk of civil unrest due to climate change. The three-year $1.9 million project is developing models to anticipate what could happen to societies under a range of potential climate change scenarios.

From the outset, the Minerva programme was slated to provide over $75 million over five years for social and behavioural science research. This year alone it has been allocated a total budget of $17.8 million by US Congress.

An internal Minerva staff email communication referenced in a 2012 Masters dissertation reveals that the programme is geared toward producing quick results that are directly applicable to field operations. The dissertation was part of a Minerva-funded project on “counter-radical Muslim discourse” at Arizona State University.

The internal email from Prof Steve Corman, a principal investigator for the project, describes a meeting hosted by the DoD’s Human Social Cultural and Behavioural Modeling (HSCB) programme in which senior Pentagon officials said their priority was “to develop capabilities that are deliverable quickly” in the form of “models and tools that can be integrated with operations.”

Although Office of Naval Research supervisor Dr Harold Hawkins had assured the university researchers at the outset that the project was merely “a basic research effort, so we shouldn’t be concerned about doing applied stuff”, the meeting in fact showed that DoD is looking to “feed results” into “applications,” Corman said in the email. He advised his researchers to “think about shaping results, reports, etc., so they [DoD] can clearly see their application for tools that can be taken to the field.”

Many independent scholars are critical of what they see as the US government’s efforts to militarise social science in the service of war. In May 2008, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) wrote to the US government noting that the Pentagon lacks “the kind of infrastructure for evaluating anthropological [and other social science] research” in a way that involves “rigorous, balanced and objective peer review”, calling for such research to be managed instead by civilian agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The following month, the DoD signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the NSF to cooperate on the management of Minerva. In response, the AAA cautioned that although research proposals would now be evaluated by NSF’s merit-review panels. “Pentagon officials will have decision-making power in deciding who sits on the panels” 

• “… there remain concerns within the discipline that research will only be funded when it supports the Pentagon’s agenda. Other critics of the programme, including the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, have raised concerns that the programme would discourage research in other important areas and undermine the role of the university as a place for independent discussion and critique of the military.”

According to Prof David Price, a cultural anthropologist at St Martin’s University in Washington DC and author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State, “when you looked at the individual bits of many of these projects they sort of looked like normal social science, textual analysis, historical research, and so on, but when you added these bits up they all shared themes of legibility with all the distortions of over-simplification. Minerva is farming out the piece-work of empire in ways that can allow individuals to disassociate their individual contributions from the larger project.”

Prof Price has previously exposed how the Pentagon’s Human Terrain Systems (HTS) programme – designed to embed social scientists in military field operations – routinely conducted training scenarios set in regions “within the United States.”

Citing a summary critique of the programme sent to HTS directors by a former employee, Price reported that the HTS training scenarios “adapted COIN [counterinsurgency] for Afghanistan/Iraq” to domestic situations “in the USA where the local population was seen from the military perspective as threatening the established balance of power and influence, and challenging law and order.”

One war-game, said Price, involved environmental activists protesting pollution from a coal-fired plant near Missouri, some of whom were members of the well-known environmental NGO Sierra Club. Participants were tasked to “identify those who were ‘problem-solvers’ and those who were ‘problem-causers,’ and the rest of the population whom would be the target of the information operations to move their Center of Gravity toward that set of viewpoints and values which was the ‘desired end-state’ of the military’s strategy.”

Such war-games are consistent with a raft of Pentagon planning documents which suggest that National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance is partially motivated to prepare for the destabilising impact of coming environmental, energy and economic shocks.

James Petras, Bartle Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University in New York, concurs with Price’s concerns. Minerva-funded social scientists tied to Pentagon counterinsurgency operations are involved in the “study of emotions in stoking or quelling ideologically driven movements,” he said, including how “to counteract grassroots movements.”

Minerva is a prime example of the deeply narrow-minded and self-defeating nature of military ideology. Worse still, the unwillingness of DoD officials to answer the most basic questions is symptomatic of a simple fact – in their unswerving mission to defend an increasingly unpopular global system serving the interests of a tiny minority, security agencies have no qualms about painting the rest of us as potential terrorists.

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is an international security journalist and academic. He is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It, and the forthcoming science fiction thriller, ZERO POINT. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter @nafeezahmed.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown

4000+ Underground Bases Prepared – Laura Magdalene Eisenhower – The True History Of Humanity

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For those who want to know the truth about a wide variety of censored topics including the true history of humanity, the colonization of Mars and the 4000+ underground bases across our country, the great grand daughter of former US President Dwight Eisenhower, Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, joins Peter Kling and Michael Vara at the 51 minute mark of the video below.

This is a fascinating new interview with Laura that breaks down the true history of our planet Earth from the unique point of view of a presidential relative who is not afraid to speak out and let her own voice be heard when talking about ‘grey ET’s’ and other controversial topics.

Two Giant Phantom Planet X May Cruise Unseen Beyond Pluto Says Astronomers From Spain

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The monsters are multiplying. Just months after astronomers announced hints of a giant “Planet X” lurking beyond Pluto, a team in Spain says there may actually be two supersized planets hiding in the outer reaches of our solar system.

When potential dwarf planet 2012 VP113 was discovered in March, it joined a handful of unusual rocky objects known to reside beyond the orbit of Pluto. These small objects have curiously aligned orbits, which hints that an unseen planet even further out is influencing their behaviour. Scientists calculated that this world would be about 10 times the mass of Earth and would orbit at roughly 250 times Earth’s distance from the sun.

Now Carlos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain have taken another look at these distant bodies. As well as confirming their bizarre orbital alignment, the pair found additional puzzling patterns. Small groups of the objects have very similar orbital paths. Because they are not massive enough to be tugging on each other, the researchers think the objects are being “shepherded” by a larger object in a pattern known as orbital resonance.

Planet shepherd

For instance, we know that Neptune and Pluto are in orbital resonance – for every two orbits Pluto makes around the sun, Neptune makes three. Similarly, one group of small objects seems to be in lockstep with a much more distant, unseen planet. That world would have a mass between that of Mars and Saturn and would sit about 200 times Earth’s distance from the sun.

Some of the smaller objects have very elongated orbits that would take them out to this distance. It is unusual for a large planet to orbit so close to other bodies unless it is dynamically tied to something else, so the researchers suggest that the large planet is itself in resonance with a more massive world at about 250 times the Earth-sun distance – just like the one predicted in the previous work.

Observing these putative planets will be tricky. The smaller bodies are on very elliptical orbits and were only spotted when they ventured closest to the sun. But the big planets would have roughly circular orbits and would be slow moving and dim, making them tough for current telescopes to see. “It’s not at all surprising that they haven’t been found yet,” says Carlos.

“As there are only a few of these extremely distant objects known, it’s hard to say anything definitive about the number or location of any distant planets,” says Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, one of the discoverers of 2012 VP113. “However, in the near future we should have more objects to work with to help us determine the structure of the outer solar system.”

Reference: arxiv.org/abs/1406.0715

Source: New Scientist

Unprecedented’: 13 aircraft mysteriously disappear from radars in heart of Europe

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A total of 13 aircraft suddenly vanished off radars for about 25 minutes on two occasions over Austria and neighboring countries, Austria’s flight safety monitor said, calling for an EU probe into the “unprecedented” incidents.

The flights vanished from air traffic controllers’ screens in Austria on June 5 and June 10 for 25 minutes each time, Marcus Pohanka of Austro Control – Austria’s flight safety organization – said Thursday.

Air traffic control in neighboring regions of Germany and the Czech Republic also reported similar problems.

Pohanka said the location, height, and identity of the 13 aircraft vanished over Austria both times, in what he called “unprecedented” incidents, AP reported. 

He added that some neighboring countries had experienced similar problems. The daily Kurier, based in Vienna, elaborated that similar problems were experienced by flight controllers in Munich and Karlsruhe in Germany and in Prague, Czech Republic. 

Poahanka declined to say which airlines and planes were involved, but suggested that some may have been passenger jets, which fly at high altitudes. The EU’s Eurocontrol and European Aviation Safety Agency will investigate the incidents. 

Poahanka stressed that at no time were any of the planes in danger, as extra air traffic controllers were immediately called to their posts and emergency measures were brought in, which included immediately establishing voice contact with the pilots and the widening of flight corridors. 

The Kurier cited an unnamed expert as saying that the problem was most likely to do with interference between the aircraft transponders and the ground.

Source: http://rt.com/news/165636-aircraft-disappear-radfars-austria/ 

Mogelijk ‘superoceaan’ gevonden onder de aarde

Wetenschappers hebben mogelijk een gigantische hoeveelheid water gevonden honderden kilometers onder de aarde. De oceanen die we nu kennen zou daarmee drie keer gevuld kunnen worden. Dat schrijft The Guardian.

Het water zit 660 kilometer onder de aardkorst, zeggen de Amerikaanse wetenschappers die nu vermoeden dat het water van onze oceaan oorspronkelijk van binnenin de planeet kwam. Tot nu werd er eerder van uitgegaan dat het water van ijskometen kwam.

De onderzoekers gebruikten data van seismometers over de Verenigde Staten en combineerden die info met experimenten op stenen. Zo kwamen ze erop dat het smelten en de bewegingen van steen honderden kilometers onder de grond tot een proces kan leiden waarbij water in steen vast zou komen te zitten.

Geofysicus Steve Jacobsen zegt wel dat het verborgen water onder de aarde als buffer dient op onze oceanen die daardoor al miljoenen jaren even groot blijven. “Maar als het verborgen water naar boven zou komen, zouden enkel hoge bergtoppen te zien zijn op het aardoppervlak.”

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Blik op de Ruimte: vloedbergen op maan

Met behulp van gegevens van drie maansondes zijn nauwkeurige metingen gedaan van de beide uitstulpingen op de maan. Deze uitstulpingen worden veroorzaakt door de zwaartekracht van de aarde. Als gevolg van de wederzijdse aantrekking zijn beide hemellichamen immers een beetje uitgerekt.

In het geval van de aarde is dit het best waar te nemen bij de oceanen. Maar ook het maanoppervlak vertoont een ongeveer 51 cm hoge uitstulping aan de voor- en achterzijde van de maan. Omdat de maan een beetje schommelt, verschuift de positie van deze vloedbergen in de tijd over een afstand van een paar cm. De metingen bevestigen wat al eerder bekend was maar dan wel op een veel nauwkeurigere schaal en voor het hele maanoppervlak.

Deze rubriek kwam tot stand in samenwerking met het Europlanetarium.
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Humans Evolved Somewhere Else In The Galaxy – We Are Aliens On Our Own Planet – Scientist Says

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MessageToEagle.com -  The idea that humanity is not from Earth is as controversial as it is intriguing.  

Are we really aliens on our own planet? If this is true where is our place of origin in the galaxy? 

A scientific evaluation of the evidence against man's evolution on planet Earth has been put forward by a researcher and author.  

According to Dr Ellis Silver, leading environmentalist and ecologist there are a number of reasons why humans do not come from Earth. 

In his book,  Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence, Dr. Silver lists seventeen factors  which suggest we are not from this planet. He also discusses the place of our origin and the timeline when humanity appeared on Earth.  

A scientific evaluation of the evidence for and (mostly) against man’s evolution on Planet Earth, by a leading environmentalist and ecologist.

Including:
An evaluation of the thirteen leading hypotheses
Seventeen factors which suggest we are not from Earth
How did we get here?
When did we get here?
What is our home planet like?
The most likely stars that our home planet orbits
If the aliens are out there why can’t we detect them?
Are we the aliens?

In this fascinating book Dr Ellis Silver provides answers to all of these questions, based on current evidence and thinking in the scientific community and elsewhere. Read more

Dr. Silver says our physiology suggests we evolved on a planet with lower gravity. 

"Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth's environment: harmed by sunlight,  a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more, "Dr. Silver said in an interview with  Yahoo news.

"The Earth approximately meets our needs as a species,  but perhaps not as strongly as whoever brought us here initially thought," Silver said in an interview with Yahoo news. 

Silver points to other unique human traits - such as the fact that babies' heads are so large that women have trouble giving birth - in earlier eras,  this was often fatal for mother, child or both.

"No other truly native species on this planet has this problem," he says.  

Dr. Silver also points out to the "extra" 223 genes in human beings, which are not found in any other species, and to the lack of a fossil "missing link".

Dr. Silver also claims that the human race has defects that mark us out as being possibly "not of this world". 

"We are all chronically ill," says Dr. Silver. "Indeed, if you can find a single person who is 100% fit and healthy and not suffering from some  (perhaps hidden or unstated) condition or disorder (there's an extensive list in the book) I would be extremely surprised - I have not been able to find anyone." 

Did we evolve on an alien world?

"I believe that many of our problems stem from the simple fact that our internal body clocks have evolved to expect a 25 hour day (this has been proven  by sleep researchers), but the Earth's day is only 24 hours. This is not a modern condition - the same factors can be traced all the way back through  mankind's history on Earth."

Dr. Silver does not suggest one answer - but a possibility that early pre-humans such as homo erectus were crossbred with another species. He also  suggests several possible origins, including Alpha Centauri. 

"Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth's environment: harmed  by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring (raw) foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more. Plus there's a prevailing feeling  among many people that they don't belong here or that something "just isn't right".

"This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. 

One reason for this, discussed in the book, is that the Earth might be a prison planet - since we seem to be a naturally violent species - and we're  here until we learn to behave ourselves." 

"Humans are not from Earth was published mainly to gauge reaction from readers and to provoke thought, particularly among those who might not have  considered such a possibility before." 

Dr Ellis says that while his idea is an extreme evolution of that idea, it is intended to be thought-provoking and in his opinion he have had a  largely positive response to it.

Now,  Dr. Silver hopes that readers will contact him with more evidence for a more extensive follow-up work.

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History of the Maumee River Basin, 1905

Defiance County,Ohio,                                                                                                         

A mound was found on the high south bank of the Maumee River, a few rods west of the middle north and south line of section twenty and seven of Defiance Township… This mound was about four feet above the surrounding land, about thirty feet in diameter. Brice, who gave the writer this information, opened this mound in the year 1824. A small quantity of bony fragments were found which readily crumbled between the fingers on being handled. Human teeth were found, some of which were of large size.

History of Fulton County, Ohio, 1905

  Of the works examined in this county, those most worthy of mention are situated on the farm of the late Hon. D. W. H. Howard, in section 9, Pike Township. These mounds were explored during the summer of 1892.These mounds are in a group of twelve in number, of which eleven are located and clearly identical and the site of the twelfth is plainly indicated… The mound mentioned as being located in the public road is, as stated above, entirely obliterated, but in an early day Col. Howard found in its center a circle of stones about four feet diameter, containing within the circle about a bushel of charcoal and ashes. The stones are what are known as “nigger heads.”Nearly all of these mounds were opened and examined by judge Handy, and the report of two of them we will give in the judge’s own language. Of one he calls Mound No. 7 he writes, “Sandy soil, light yellow sand: about eighteen inches from surface found longest thigh bones yet discovered. No trace of fire-no disturbance of soil here to fore-bones crumbled on exposure-highest of the mounds-found near center skeleton with his head to the north, lying on his back and limbs extended-near hem found skeleton No. 2, with head to the east and lying on his face. Both being large men.About another mound in this group it was written: “The part of the skull above the nasal bones was well preserved, and compared with the skull of an Indian found intrusively buried in neighboring mound, was a distinctly different type of man.

Newark Daily Advocate, (Newark, Ohio) August 14, 1902

SkeletonFound in Bed of Sand in Northwestern Ohio-Man was Eight Feet High    Bowling Green, O., Aug. 14-While excavating for sand for building on the Charles Whirmer farm, Wm. Jones unearthed the skeleton of a gigantic man. It is in a fair state of preservation and will be preserved, as it is thought that it may have some scientific value.The skeleton was found in a sitting posture, and when the bones were placed in a horizontal position they indicated that the height of the man in life must have been over eight feet. The head is of enormous size, being 12 inches in diameter.It is believed that it is the skeleton of a member of a prehistoric race of giants. Further excavations will be made to see if other graves cannot be found.

History of the County of Williams, Ohio, 1905

On fractioned section 12, about 2 miles north of Montpelier, two large mounds which were six on seven feet in height and fifty or sixty feet in diameter… taking there from two skeletons, one very large and the other of ordinary size.
American Antiquarian, Vol., 3, 1880

“A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions” was found in a clay coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphs during mound explorations by Dr. Everhart near Zanesville, Ohio.A mound near Toledo, Ohio held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and teeth “twice as large as those of present day people” and beside each was a large bowl with “curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures.”

History of Lorain County, Ohio, 1879

Their mounds are a proof of their existence, for their character and the place and mode of their erection attest the handiwork of intelligent beings, while the bones, weapons of warfare, stone implements and arrow heads whichhave been discovered and are still found buried in these earthworks, furnish a still stronger proof of the existence of a pre-historic people. The skeleton remains of human beings of almost gigantic proportions were exhumed from their ancient cemeteries by the first settlers. The Indians, disclaiming them as kindred, could give no information in regard to them.”

American Antiquarian, Vol. 13, 1890
Bones in a Gravel Bed– Some workmen in Auglaize County, Ohio, recently came across some human bones in a bed of gravel. Mr. Charles Jones, a well-known and wealthy landowner of Spencerville, Allen County, says of the discovery:

“There was a remarkable discovery of prehistoric remains in our section the other day. The instance came under my own observation. Last week I had occasion to visit the farm of I. Hemley, about two miles west of Kossuth, just across the border in Auglaize County. Some workmen were engaged in digging a well, and had descended to a depth of 32 feet, when they struck a gravel drift, from which they exhumed a skull, 38 inches in circumference. Further down the other bones were found. There can be no doubt as to the kind of remains. The thigh bone measured three feet two inches long. All the bones were in an excellent state of preservation, and were probably those of a prehistoric warrior who was killed in battle, as the skull seemed to have been crushed with a blunt instrument. The whole skeleton measured eight feet eleven and one-half inches in height, and when clothed in flesh must have been a tremendously powerful man. A huge stone ax weighing twenty-seven pounds and a flint spear head of seventeen pounds weight were found with the bones, and were, no doubt, swayed by the giant with the greatest ease. A copper medallion, engraved with several strange characters, was also found with the bones. This is a startling discovery. The scientific value of the discovery is also considerable, and may lead to some interesting developments.

The Best recent UFO sightings – June 2014

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This week Brad and Sherry Steiger have written the article “UFO CONTACT THROUGH THE MIND” exclusively for UFO Digest. Great read! Next, Pat Regan sees Orbs maybe as a spiritual contact medium, a psychic warrior. Then, Scott Corrales reports on another strange object near the Popocatepetl Volcano and more. Roger Marsh writes about a Canadian’s experience with a hovering egg-shaped UFO. Alfred Lambremont Webre interviews independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD ABD, about Fukushima radiation on ExopoliticsTV. Next, Cheryl Costa claims that Pine Bush is New York’s UFO capital! Paul Schroeder contributes an article about ghost hunters and the real places monsters dwell. Reporter Mary-Ann Russo explains how real Australian UFO Hunters train their investigators. Next, Gavin Davies reports on a UFO making nightly visits over a house in Cofax, California. Finally, Warwick Associates, promotes a new book that they claim has startling new discoveries concerning ancient astronauts, secret cults and lost civilizations.  Enjoy Dirk Vander Ploeg

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UFO CONTACT THROUGH THE MIND  By Brad and Sherry Steiger.

Some of the most controversial aspects of our recent book Real Encounters, Different Dimensions, and Otherworldy Beings dealt with contactees, abductees, and others who claim that their encounters with alien beings were achieved through dreams, astral projections, near-death experiences, and past life memories. After our more than 50 years researching accounts of UFO contact, it has become clear to us that thousands of experiencers have met UFO intelligences through the mind, spirit, or nonphysical self and that consciousness offers a valid tool for exploring the UFO phenomenon. More... Also read: UFO CONTACT THROUGH THE MIND - PART II

ORBS AS A SPIRITUAL CONTACT MEDIUM AND THE WAY OF THE PSYCHIC WARRIOR  by Pat Regan.

I was recently chasing local bats with my camera and got more than I had bargained for. The bats were extremely fast and remained elusive but I managed to get some rather interesting shots of floating orbs. Of course many theories exist about orbs from the mundane to the paranormal. Moreover, there is probably truth in both ends of the belief spectrum concerning this fascinating phenomenon. Yes, they may indeed be reflected dust particles, rain droplets, etc – but ‘not’ always! More Also read: THE RUFFORD TWISTER UFO: 5 YEARS ON AND STILL A ‘TW-YSTERY”!

STRANGE OBJECT IN THE VACINITY OF THE POPOCATEPETL VOLCANO, MEXICO  by Scott Corrales.

Users of Twitter reported having seen a UFO in the vicinity of Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano on Monday morning. In recent days, the government of that country has reported an increase in the stratovolcano's activity, recording up to 430 emanations in 24 hours with outbursts of incandescent material. Following a photograph of volcanic activity this morning by @webcamsdemexico, taken from the popular SkyAlert, Twitter users highlighted the presence of an unusual dark spot in the images. More... Also read: UNIDENTIFIED LIGHT VIDEOTAPED OVER LA SERENA, CHILE

RECOLLECTIONS OF A HOVERING EGG-SHAPED UFO  by Roger Marsh.

A Canadian witness at Abbotsford, British Columbia, recalled a frightening experience with a silent, egg-shaped object that hovered nearby for three minutes before moving away at “warp drive,” according to June 6, 2014, testimony in Case 56883 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.  More...

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION - INTENTIONAL EXTERMINATION, ECOCIDE by Alfred Lambremont Webre.

In an ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD ABD, detailed how the Fukushima site have now, through the Wigner effect, become breeder reactors, furthering an intentional global depopulation and extermination of the human (and animal species) population. Ms. Moret reveals how the HAARP Tesla technology can be used to reverse the radiation now present in the Earth’s atmospheric column, its oceans and land masses, and terminate the intentional extermination program.  More..

NEW YORK’S UFO CAPITAL IS PINE BUSH!  by Cheryl Costa.

Pine Bush – New York’s UFO Capital, that’s what people were telling back in April. They all said I should go to the Pine Bush UFO Fair. To be honest with you I had not heard of Pine Bush, New York prior to that. Then my editor mentions Pine Bush to me as well. Unfortunately by the time I got around to researching it, the one-day festival had come and gone. The claim to fame is that Pine Bush is New York’s UFO Capital. This point is proclaimed in the book “Weird New York.” More...

GHOST HUNTERS AND BEYOND THIS PLACE WHERE MONSTERS DWELL!  by Paul Schroeder.

What dangers exist for the uninitiated amateurs who go "ghost-hunting"? A "ghost box', however fascinating as a doorway to the unseen, offers a dangerous opportunity for a masquerading evil one to enter to feast on your energies. What if powerful demonics are infesting a presumed 'haunted house'? More.

HOW REAL AUSTRALIAN UFO HUNTERS TRAIN THEIR INVESTIGATORS  by Mary-Ann Russon.

An Australian group of UFO hunters has introduced in-house training and an examination, to ensure that its members know how to deal with the public properly, but the exam will not be added to the TAFE curriculum in the near future, as reported by the Australian media. "Our first test was held on Sunday but its still in its infancy," Ivan Rigoni, Victorian UFO Action's (VUFOA's) investigations case coordinator tells IBTimes UK. More....

COFAX CA RECEIVES UFO VISITS NIGHTLY  by Paul Dale Roberts.

The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race.In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye. Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life. More...

WAS THERE A UFO OVER CYPRUS? by Gavin Davies.

What do you believe was behind this report and photograph? I have noticed a white bright  round object in the sky on 6/6/2014 at 16:20 (Local Cyprus time), 14:20 GMT,at the following approximate position. latitude  35° 3’17.44″N, longitude  33°26’32.30″E More...

STARTLING NEW DISCOVERIES: ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, SECRET CULTS AND LOST CIVILIZATIONS  from Warwick Associates.

Michael Pye and Kirsten Dalley have gathered together the world’s most adventurous and knowledgeable researchers and bestselling authors to expound on subjects relating to the ancient world. For their new anthology, Lost Secrets of the Gods: The Latest Evidence and Revelations on Ancient Astronauts, Precursor Cultures, and Secret Societies, original essays––revealing “white paper” treatises––were contributed by such luminaries as: More...

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Battle in Ape Canyon

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Ape Canyon is actually a gorge along the northeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. Of course, the name “Ape Canyon” didn’t come from just anywhere. The name refers to a supposed encounter between a group of miners and several ‘apemen’ in 1924, an event eventually integrated into Bigfoot folklore.

Fred Beck, one of the miners, claimed they shot and possibly killed at least one of the creatures. The death resulted in an attack on the miners’ cabin. According to Beck, the men had just settled down to sleep for the night when they were awakened by an attack on their cabin, during which the creatures bombarded it with rocks and tried to break in. The fighting continued all night long, but none of the men were seriously hurt. By morning, an eerie quiet had entered the camp and as the men cautiously exited the cabin, they saw an ape-man in the distance. They shot at the beast several times and it finally fell over the cliff into the canyon. It was the only one of their attackers they would see. The men packed their belongings in a hurry, leaving most things behind, and made their way home, promising each other not to speak of the incident to anyone. The pact didn’t last long because the story was leaked and within a few weeks it was reported in the July 16, 1924 issue of The Oregonian, which dubbed the beasts the ‘Ape-Men of Mount St. Helens.’

The miner’s encounter in Ape Canyon is documented on the BFRO website.

There was another mysterious incident in Ape Canyon that took place in 1950. It involved world ski champion Jim Carter, who disappeared while on a ski trip in the Canyon. He was with some companions and then went off by himself to take some photos. But only his camera case was found. Searchers later reported finding his ski tracks in the snow. Carter had apparently taken off at an incredible rate of speed performing jumps and maneuvers that no skier would have taken unless he was very frightened or being pursued. One of the searchers reported an eerie feeling that he was being ‘watched’ the whole time. Carter’s disappearance remains a mystery.

In the June 27-28, 1964 editions of the Longview Daily News, the following article appeared:

Legendary Mt. St. Helens Apemen Called Legitimate

The legend of the apemen of Mt. St. Helens returns, like hay fever, with summer weather.

The story of the apemen of the beautiful conical mountain situated in the Cascade Range of Southwest Washington, is a favorite in the area, but it just may have some basis in fact.

There is more basis to support it than Nepal’s Yeti or northern California’s “Big Foot” and probably as much as Loch Ness’ monster.

Last summer, two different Portland groups who visited the region reported sighting the monsters, usually described as from 7 to 10 feet tall, hairy and either white or beige-colored.

Three persons in a car on a lonely forest road said they saw one of the creatures when it flashed across the headlight beams of their car near the wilderness area which includes such places as “Ape Canyon.”

A Portland couple fishing on the Lewis River south of the mountain saw a huge beige figure “bigger than any human” amble off into the brush.

Old timers aren’t surprised, just amused. The apeman legend actually is older than the white man’s habitation of the Pacific Northwest.

Indian Legend

Forestry employes have investigated many reports of the strange creatures. According to Indian legend, the “apes” were the ferocious Selahtik Indians, a band of renegades much like giant apes in appearance who lived like wild animals in the secluded caves of the Cascades.

The first recorded encounter of the apes with white men was in 1924. A group of five prospectors rushed into Kelso to report that a group of great, ape-like creatures had attacked them in the middle of the night.

The miners said they had been working a mine on the east slopes of Mt. St. Helens. During the daytime, they saw some of the apes and fired at them to halt an apparent attack. One of the apes appeared to have been hit and rolled into a deep ravine. That night, according to the account, the apemen hurled rocks onto the cabin and “danced and screamed until daylight.”

Then came the “great ape hunt 0f 1924.” Law enforcement officers and a flock of newspapermen made up a posse that went into the area. The armed searchers fired at anything that moved, so the report went. They returned to tell of finding huge footprints, but no apes.

The legend grew from that point for several years, then subsided with only sporadic reports of traces of the apes. Responsible persons, experienced mountaineers and skiers, have given credence to the story.

Bob Lee of Portland, a leader of the 1961 Himalayan expedition and adviser to last year’s Himalayan expedition, said last year he had a strange experience. Lee has never claimed to have seen the apes, but said “there was something strange on the high slopes of the mountain.”

He was a member of a party that searched for Jim Carter, an experienced skier and mountaineer, who vanished on the mountain in 1950. His disappearance remains a mystery.

Somebody Watched

At the time, Lee was a member of the Seattle Mountain Search and Rescue unit. He described the search for Carter as “the most eerie experience I ever had.” He said that every time he was cut off from the rest of the search party he felt “somebody was watching me.”

Carter, he said, had climbed the mountain with some companions on a warm, clear Sunday. He left the group to take a picture and said he would ski to the left of the group. He was never seen again.

His tracks, however, indicated that he suddenly took off down the mountain in a wild, death-defying run that no experienced skier would make — unless he was pursued, Lee said.

The track went in the direction of Ape Canyon. But no trace of Carter or his equipment was found although the area was combed for two weeks. Lee recalled stories of about 25 persons who claim they had encountered the monsters during a 20 year period.

The canyon named for the apes, is a lonely, ominous spot in a wild area. It extends to a point near Ape Cave, thought to be the longest unitary lava tube in the world.

There have been many reports of footprints in the area. Some are described as being about 18 inches long and seemingly human.

Unless the creatures are really fuzzy throwbacks, the lost Indian tribe theory seems most likely to some of the fans of the mystery. It has given rise to some suggestions, one of which is to leave well enough alone. The government might take over and shove benefits and subsidies at them — retroactive to the Ice Age.

And that, as well as costing a lot of money, would ruin a very good legend.

Beck detailed his claims in a 22-page book written in 1967 titled I Fought The Apemen of Mt. St. Helens, in which he identified the creatures as ‘mystical beings from another dimension’. Beck explained that he had experienced psychic premonitions and visions his entire life of which the apemen were only one component.

William Halliday, director of the Western Speleological Survey, claimed in his 1983 pamphlet Ape Cave and the Mount St. Helens Apes that the miner’s assailants were actually local youths throwing rocks, which camp counselors bringing kids on hiking trips to the Canyon also tried to impart.

In July 2013, the Dark Waters Paranormal Group claimed on their Facebook page that Ape Canyon and remnants of the original cabin had been found. They held back directions to the location:

All surface evidence of the cabin is gone. A 1936 trail map told us that one could see the cabin from the trail. But that was only 12 years after the incident. In 1968, Fred Beck had heard that the cabin had burnt to the ground. In 1972, hikers told Peter Byrne that they had visited the cabin. Today, it’s rock, steep slope and trees.

The nature of the site carries a high probability of very little human impact. The area has never been commercially logged as there are so few trees and these are very difficult to get out. The danger of traversing the area makes a high rate of human camp sites unlikely..

..the excitement began with the discovery of the wire, about 16″ long with a coiled loop at one end, like for a bailing or a handle, sticking vertically in the ground.. The excitement grew with a nail, a shank nail about 4 inches long.. jumping up and down and yelling and vigorous hand shaking ensued with the spoon. A single spoon. Just an old spoon. About 6″ underground…

But this was the clincher. We started finding more and more nails and finally got to a rotten horizontal log, again about 6″ underground WITH THE NAILS DRIVEN IN TO IT. As best we can tell, we probably found the long, 20 foot side of the cabin, guessing the uphill side.

Sources:
bigfootencounters.com
mountsthelens.com
paranormal.about.com
cryptomundo.com

Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America

Bigfoot and Other Ape-Men (Paranormal Files)

Track of the Bigfoot (The Cryptids Trilogy)

Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America’s Enduring Legend

Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/06/battle-in-ape-canyon.html

Pilot and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs

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Pavel Romanovich Popovich

On September 30th 2009, General-Major of Aviation, Pilot-Cosmonaut Pavel Romanovich Popovich, the first Ukrainian cosmonaut in history, passed away. Always proud of his ethnicity, twice Hero of the Soviet Union award, he had many other awards and medals.

Pavel Popovich was greatly respected; a kind, nice and decent person, always ready to help others. His life was intertwined with the turbulent history of UFO research in the Soviet Union after 1978.

Popovich was born in Soviet Ukraine on October 5, 1929. A young engineer and amateur pilot, Popovich joined the Soviet Air Force; in 1960 he was enrolled in the first team of cosmonauts. Popovich was the Number “Four” Cosmonaut in the history of manned spaceflights. He underwent a full course of training for space flights on board “Vostok” spacecraft.

Pavel Popovich (as a boy) lived under the Nazi occupation for several years, and this fact could sink his chances to become a Soviet cosmonaut. The KGB took several months to study biographies of each of the future cosmonauts; someone must have had the courage to overlook that fact, and let him continue his training.

His first spaceflight was aboard the “Vostok-4″ spaceship in 1962. Later, Pavel Popovich was trained for the Soviet Moon research program. After the program was cancelled, Popovich underwent training for flights aboard “Soyuz” spaceships. His second mission into space was as the chief pilot of the Soyuz-14 spaceship in 1974. The flight was part of the Soviet program of military use of space exploration technology. Popovich’s call name was Berkut-1 (Golden Eagle). Having docked with the Salyut 3 orbital station (this was a cover name for the secret battle station Almaz-2), Popovich and his engineer, had conducted military intelligence operations. They had infrared and powerful optical equipment, 14 special cameras, and even one thirty millimeter cannon. One of the tasks was to capture the American Skylab station with three astronauts aboard. The Americans had a special nickname for Popovich: “Aggressor”. But the program later was shut down.

Between the years 1980 to 1989 he served as the Deputy Chief of the Y. Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center.

The Salyut 3 (Almaz-2 orbital battle station) during construction.

President of the UFO Association

In 1990, OYUZUFOTSENTR, the very first official public UFO research organization of the Soviet Union was formed. Its director was V. Ajaja, a former naval officer, a submariner, a long-suffering independent UFO researcher and lecturer. Its president, Pavel Popovich clearly stated in interviews that he headed SOYUZUFOTSENTR on behest of his friends, UFO researchers. Popovich never considered himself to be an expert in the field of ufology. He did help those who tried to research it independently, or as part of the secret Soviet program. His authority and reputation had greatly helped Ajaja’s efforts to keep his organization viable in post-1991 Russia.

Popovich floats a pen to demonstrate weightlessness aboard the Vostok-4.

Popovich and Setka: A Secret Soviet UFO Research Program

In 1978, the powerful Military-Industrial Commission created two UFO research centers, one in the USSR Academy of Sciences, the other in the USSR Defense Ministry. The anomalous phenomena research in the USSR Academy of Sciences became the subject of a special scientific research program designated as SETKA-AN. The Soviet Ministry of Defense embarked on a similar program, the secret SETKA-MO. Both centers aided each other’s UFO research and exchanged information. The first act of the SETKA-AN resulted in official sanction of “anomalous atmospheric phenomena” as a descriptive term, instead of the forbidden “UFO.”

The SETKA-AN debunkers did its best to prove there are no UFOs, only errors in observation of rocket launches, or at the very least, ball lightning. But there had been occasions when “anomalous phenomena” had led to the unauthorized launches of mobile missiles, and on other occasions, the appearance of UFOs during military training exercises had resulted in the breakdown of radio communications and equipment malfunctions.

The program ended in 1991, but a group of experts remained in the Department of General Physics and Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences where they analyzed incoming reports until 1996.

Scientific arguments regarding the nature of UFOs had been the least of the military researchers’ concerns; they did, however, pay close attention to the hypothesis that UFOs are manifestations of an ET civilization. They had been concerned with UFOs’ quite unpredictable impact on military technology and on personnel. They wanted to know how they could use UFO properties for their own pragmatic military needs.

In 1984, by the decision of VSNTO (All-Union Council of Scientific Technical Societies), a Central Commission for Anomalous Phenomena in the Environment was created. Its Chairman was Soviet academician V. Troitsky, one of his deputies was General-Major of Aviation, Pilot-Cosmonaut P. Popovich.

The Commission was born because those in charge of the academic research of the SETKA program basically got rid of independent UFO researchers, leaving only the debunkers together with military specialists from secret military institutes in the program.

The building of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Universitetskaya Embankment. (Credit: Alex Florstein)

Independent Soviet ufologists did not take the continuous scorn from debunkers lying down, and basically moved the Academy of Sciences aside, by directly approaching military coordinators of the secret program. The initiative to create the Commission was supported by military researchers, who were tired of fruitless activities of the academic debunkers. The Commission included also those who served the Ministry of Defense research. Pavel Popovich played a role in its workings, although due to the secrecy and his oath, he had not revealed all he knew.

According to Popovich, most of the information about anomalous phenomena came from military and pilots, trusted, sane and healthy people. Among the reports many were nonsensical, but some were historically important. UFO data started being reported from the days of W.W.II. During the Kursk Battle, Soviet aviators and witnesses on the ground observed mysterious objects in the sky. He revealed this in the April, 2009 interview to the Ukrainian web portal DonbassUA. The Kursk episode is described in detail in Mysterious Sky: Soviet UFO Phenomenon.

On May 29 1984, Trud newspaper published an article where Popovich told the author about a case that took place on March 27, 1983, in Gorky (and investigated by the Commission’s Gorky section). It was an object that flew in the area of the city’s airport. The airport’s radars registered but could not identify the object. The object flew at the altitude of no more than one kilometer, and the speed approximately 180-200 kilometers per hour. The witness (Flight Controller A. Shushkin) who had observed the object said that the object’s size was similar to that of the IL-14 aircraft fuselage. But there were no wings. It was a “cigar”. Its color light gray, steely, and it moved slowly across the sky. The phenomenon lasted around forty minutes. At the distance of 30 to 40 kilometers NE from the airport the radars lost it. Shushkin later corrected Pavel Popovich and said the UFO actually appeared over the city on March 28, 1983; flew at an altitude of 400-600 meters, and disappeared ten seconds after it was sighted.

A more dramatic, episode took place in January of 1978, and Popovich described it to Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya newspaper on August 6, 1984.

During the flight of a YAK-40 over the area between two settlements Medvezhye and Nadim, the crew noticed something round; a very bright foreign body that approached rapidly and sometime later appeared straight in front of the aircraft. Every minute the size of this body increased. When the crash appeared to be imminent, the object soared right in front of the aircraft’s nose, not causing any harm.

Yakovlev Yak-40 landing in Moscow, Russia. (Credit: Eddie Heisterkamp/Airliners.net)

The KGB UFO Files

In 1991, a file of KGB documents was provided to Pavel Popovich (he had urged them to release the information). It was the Second Chief Directorate of the KGB (Counterintelligence), or rather the Tenth Department within the Directorate (Control of the defense facilities) that had received UFO information. The file (124 pages of printed text) contained copies of UFO reports: handwritten reports, typed testimonies, and notes from KGB informers, crude drawings and eyewitness reports of UFOs. An accompanying letter was written by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee for State Security USSR, N.A. Sham. This cooperation between UFO researchers and the KGB was unprecedented and was a landmark in UFO research in the Soviet Union and possibly the world.

Years later Sham stated that the KGB was not engaged in research of anomalous phenomena (he pointed to the SETKA program as the responsible entity for such research).

Roswell

In 1992, on behest of UFO researchers, Pavel Popovich had contacted two Russian ministries, to find out whether the Soviet-era archives contained documents pertaining to the Roswell Crash. The reply from the Ministry of Defense stated that the officials of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense had conducted search of the materials of interest to Popovich. They did not find any Roswell materials. The second reply came from the Ministry of Security of the Russian federation. No documentary materials about the case of the “flying saucer” crash in the area of Roswell, USA in the year 1947 were discovered, it stated.

Soviet intelligence, quite active in the United States in 1940s, would not miss the Roswell Crash controversy.

From left: Andriyan Nikolayev, Yuri Gagarin, Pavel Popovich, his wife Marina Popovich and their daughter vacationing in the Crimea (1967).

Revelations

Marina Popovich is a retired Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer, and legendary Soviet test pilot who holds 107 aviation world records set on over 40 types of aircraft. She is one of the most famous pilots in Russian history. She also speaks about her experiences with UFOs in her book titled UFO Glasnost (published in 2003 in Germany) and in public lectures and interviews. She claims that the Soviet military and civilian pilots have confirmed 3000 UFO sightings and that the Soviet Air Force and KGB have fragments of five crashed UFOs.

After every interview Pavel Popovich had to sign a special document stating that he did not reveal any state secrets. He never did tell all he knew, a military person loyal to his oath.

In 2006, Pavel Popovich gave an interview to Bul’var Gordona, a Ukrainian magazine. (Issue 31[67]). He said that the inhabitants of Phaeton or Moonah (an ancient planet with advanced civilization, believed to exist next to Earth ages ago, but perished due to nuclear explosions) probably visit Earth from time to time.

The visitors’ intermediate base is located in the area of Saturn, and they have three bases on Earth. One of them is in the Andes, the other in the Indian Ocean trench, and the third one is located in the Himalayas, the famous Shambala. The base in the Andes they liquidated because human civilization came too close. But they do have an underwater base at the bottom of the Indian Ocean trench.

Then Pavel Popovich recalled his UFO sighting in 1978, while aboard an airplane flying from Washington to Moscow returning from Pittsburgh, where academicians attended the international Gagarin Readings conference (they had also observed the strange object).

The altitude was 10,500 meters. Popovich recalled that something urged him to keep looking (he was sitting by the window). He noticed about a white, isosceles triangle about a kilometer and a half from the plane and some ten degrees higher (as he and others had estimated). The cosmonaut shouted, ran to the crew. The onboard radar did not register anything, and nothing was registered on the ground.

The crew also observed the object, and they determined that its side was about 100 meters. The object did not resemble any known aircraft. It moved rapidly; the airplane flew at the speed of one thousand kilometers per hour, while the object traveled about time and a half faster. This flying object easily overtook them, and flew forth, but they stayed within the range of vision for a minute. They, the professionals, could not determine what the object was.

Popovich could not state that his sighting was really a secret weapon being tested, although in 90 percent of such observations this is so.

Pavel Popovich said that he did not believe any of the contactees. In the 2001 FAKTY interview Popovich said that 95 percent of everything written about UFOs should be discarded as nonsense.

In the same interview with Bul’var Gordona Popovich was asked whether he, a pilot and cosmonaut who grew up in the atheistic (sometimes, militantly so) society, believed in God.

He replied that he was baptized. And in 1974, during his spaceflight he understood that there is someone who had created stars outside the spacecraft’s porthole, the Moon, and other planets. When one sees this, one understands how infinite everything is. Popovich recalled thinking: “someone had created it, and someone directs it all”. Who has created the laws of celestial mechanics? All we did was to use them, to discern them, to explain them. That is why he thought about God. No matter what one calls him, there is the Creator who has created everything.

From left: Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valery Bykovsky, Andriyan Nikolayev and Gherman Titov at a TV studio (1963).

Conclusion

Popovich lived his final years in a settlement near Moscow, dubbed Star Village because 36 former cosmonauts reside there. He had a dream to be able to fly the spacecraft into space again, to look at Earth from above. The name of Pavel Popovich was given to a mountain ridge in Antarctica and a minor planet.

This story was sent to us by Paul Stonehill and was co-written by Phillip Mantle. It was originally posted on the Russian news website, Pravda.

The post Pilot and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs appeared first on Openminds.tv.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/pilot-cosmonaut-pavel-popovich-ufos/28257

The Actual Case That The Film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Was Based On

(Before It's News)

Portage County: The Close Encounters Chase

By Kevin Randle

Daily 2 Cents: Possessed Doll in Singapore — Oak Cliff, TX Abduction — Human Tongue Has A Sixth Sense

(Before It's News)

Possessed Doll in Singapore

The doll was found beside a busy street in Singapore. The Arabic word on the cloth is translated as ‘Allah’. Stories from twitter revealed that the doll is possessed and has been moving around on its own when the original owner isn’t home. She binded the eyes and left it far away from home so it wouldn’t follow her back.

Some say the doll can be heard talking when it’s left alone in a room and is found with its head turned in a different direction. It is said that it spoke in a Malay language and sound like an adult female.

Original owner found that the only way to get rid of it and make sure it won’t come back is to cover it’s eyesight. The curse is probably passed on to someone else who found it and untied the cloth unknowingly.

Edit: turns out it the Arabic thing meant “bismillah”. I think it’s to trap whatever jinn or curse is inside from coming out or following the owner back home. Others speculate it’s a product of black magic.

The doll has been missing since. On the very day the locals started trending a freaky suicide (guy hanging beside an apartment block) and murder case which is highly unusual in Singapore but is most probably a coincidence and not related. It’s irrelevant but you don’t see multiple creepy images start appearing on the same day in a small country like Singapore so many assumed they were all linked though obviously it’s not. – Reddit.com

The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House

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Oak Cliff, TX Abduction

-subject was 13 in 1965 and was staying with grandparents in Oak Cliff Texas
-she woke up sick and felt she had been abducted and had been gone an hour
-she vomited a strange chemical smelling substance three times
-when she stood up she passed a large blood clot which was unusual for a child who had only had one or two periods previously
-she hemorrhaged for five and six hours but her grandmother did not take her to the doctor
-she felt weak after the experience and felt different and knew she could never give birth to a child
-when the subject was in her twenties she noticed a chip in her sore right shoulder the doctor said it was unidentified and she has the xray
-she doesn’t think she she was abducted again but not sure
-she is now 61
-subject has heard of other abductions in that area in that time period and would like to talk to someone about getting more information about abductions and what happened in Oak Cliff Texas in the 60′s – MUFON CMS

Another Possible Abduction

Front Royal, VA – 1/2/11 – unedited: It as during the night, after midnight. I was asleep. I woke up but could not open my eyes. I could smell rain, and felt my legs/feet being set down. there was some sort of cloth covering me and I could feel the edge of it across my lower neck. A voice in my head, coming from my right, informed me that I could open my eyes by saying,”Now you can look.” I became fearful, but turned my head to the left and opened my eyes. All I saw in a split second were two large almond shaped eyes. I felt an incredible amount of love, then I blanked out immediately and fell back asleep. When I woke up that morning, I found out it had rained during the night, and I did not have my window open due to it being January. – MUFON CMS

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Human Tongue Has A Sixth Sense

In addition to recognising sweet, sour, salty, savory (umami), and bitter tastes, your tongue has a sixth taste sense – the “sense of carbs” – that allows you to perceive carbohydrates — the nutrients that break down into sugar and form the main source of energy.

The “sense of carbs” also triggers the pleasure centre of the brain and could explain why people often find diet foods unsatisfying, a research shows.

“The mouth is a more capable sensory organ than we currently appreciate, able to distinguish carbohydrates from artificial sweeteners when both taste identical,” said Nicholas Gant from University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Carbohydrates are extremely powerful stimuli that have profound and immediate effects on the brain and the systems it controls, Gant added.

For the study, researchers asked participants to squeeze a sensor held between their right index finger and thumb when shown a visual cue.

At the same time, the participants’ tongues were rinsed with one of three different fluids.

The first two were artificially sweetened – to identical tastes – but with only one containing carbohydrate. The third, a control, was neither sweet nor carb-loaded.

When the carbohydrate solution was used, the researchers observed a 30 percent increase in activity for the brain areas that control movement and vision.

This reaction, they propose, is caused by our mouths reporting that additional energy in the form of carbohydrates is coming.

“This ‘sixth taste sense’ for carbohydrate is likely one of many additional food qualities that are detectable by receptors in the mouth,” Gant was quoted as saying in media reports. – IBN Live

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PHYSICAL ALIEN ENCOUNTER WITH A FAMILY IN AUSTRALIA

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JANUARY 1988      NULLARBOR PLAINS AUSTRALIA

The Knowles family set out from Perth for Melbourne, in the hope of finding new jobs. Instead, a terrifying and violent 90-minute encounter with a UFO on the Nullarbor Plain left them so shaken they turned around and headed home.  The family claim the glowing UFO, shaped like an egg in an eggcup, chased and even lifted their car off the road, dropping it so heavily a tyre burst.  During the height of the encounter in January 1988, they said their voices became distorted and sounded like they were in slow motion.  It was a little before 5am when Sean swerved to miss a huge “bright glowing” object on the road.  It was bright and white with a yellow centre, shaped like an egg in an eggcup and about a metre wide, high enough to block their view.  It was a weird-looking thing and we stopped to go back and have a look at it,” Sean told The Advertiser.  Walking towards the object, they became frightened and ran back to the car and drove away.  “It chased us and at one stage when we were trying to get away we were doing up to 200km/h,” he said.  He said the object, which was humming like a transformer, landed on the roof with a thump, pushing down the car and then lifting it from the road.  His mother reached out the window to touch the object, which she said felt hot.  “She told me it felt like a rubber suction pad,’’ he said.  When Mrs Knowles brought her hand back inside, it was covered with a fine dust.  While suspended in the air, their voices were distorted and it appeared as though they were talking in slow motion.  “I wound down the window — it came in the car like smoke,” Mrs Knowles told Channel 7. “We thought we were going to die. We were going silly. Something was going into our heads.”  Patrick said: “Something seemed to be on top of us. We looked around but it didn’t seem to be there. It seemed to kind of grab the car.   “I wound up the windows and the car began to smoke up inside. It smelt like dead bodies or something smelt really foul, like gas or something.’’  He said he felt as though his brains were being pulled from his head.  When the car dropped to the ground it blew a tyre.  he family hid in a bush and after about 30 minutes replaced the tyre and drove to the Mundrabilla roadhouse, where truckie Graham Henley said he also had seen the bright light in the area in his rear-vision mirror. 

It was hovering above The Basin on the sweeping stretch of road just flickering in and out between the trees,” he said.  He said the family was in a state of shock and even their dogs were cowering in the car.  “The whole car smelt like bakelite or just like as if you’d blown a fuse,” he said.  “A soot was all over the car and there were four dents as though the car had been picked up by a magnet.  “I cannot explain it but all I know is that I saw four very terrified people at 4.45 on Wednesday morning.”  Police investigating the incident said the car had a dented roof and was covered with an ash-like material.  Ceduna policeman Sergeant Fred Longley said Mrs Knowles and her sons were obviously distressed when they walked into the police station.  “They were in a terrible state — even though it was five hours after the incident. Something happened out there. Their car, even after being driven all that way, still had black ash — or dust — over it. Even on the inside. Where did that come from? There’s no soil like that out there, only sand.”  And Ceduna officer Sergeant Jim Furnell said the car had dents in the roof “as if something had landed on top”. 

NOTE: The above image is a rendering

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Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind –  Suspicious Deaths, Mysterious Murders, and Bizarre Disappearances in UFO History

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Flying Into Oblivion, an excerpt from Nick Redfern’s new book

 

 

 

Everyone has heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But what about close encounters of the fatal kind? The field of UFO is rife with unsettling examples of suspicious deaths. Accounts of accidents that might have been accidents after all, abound. Researchers and witnesses have vanished, never to be seen again. Here we share an excerpt from Chapter 6: Flying Into Oblivion from author Nick Redfern’s new release.

 

Mysterious Skies

At about 9:30 a.m. on November 10, 1953, Karl Hunrath and Wilbur Wilkinson, two friends originally from Wisconsin but at the time living in California, hired a small airplane and took to the skies of Los Angeles. It was the last time either man was seen alive. It was the last time the aircraft was seen, too. Maybe they crashed shortly after takeoff and died fiery deaths. If so, where was the wreckage? Where were the bodies? No one, including the emergency services that launched a hasty search and rescue operation when it became apparent that something was awry, could find a single piece of telltale evidence of such an accident anywhere. It was almost as if Hunrath and Wilkinson had been abducted by aliens. In fact, that may have been precisely what happened to them.

When news of the pair’s vanishing act surfaced, many of California’s UFO researchers voiced their suspicions that Hunrath and Wilkinson had been whisked away to a faraway world by benevolent aliens—the so-called Space Brothers that dominated so much of the West Coast world of Ufology in the 1950s. Others researchers took a far bleaker approach to the whole thing and pondered the possibility that deadly aliens had lured the pair to their deaths somewhere in the mountains of California. Such thoughts were not at all unreasonable ones. Hunrath and Wilkinson were big players on the Los Angeles UFO scene at the time and, in the weeks and months leading up to their disappearances, were making it widely and loudly known that they had made contacts with at least two races of extraterrestrials—via ESP, drugs, and Ouija boards, no less. But how had the two men become embroiled in the UFO controversy in the first place? The answer is a strange one.

 

Hunrath, Adamski, and the FBI

The deeply curious saga all began when Hunrath—a man with a violent, hair-trigger temper, a dislike of women, and a flair for creating all manner of electronic gadgets and gizmos—decided to get hot on the flying saucer trail. That meant heading out to where most of the alien action was taking place: California. In late 1952, Hunrath quit his job in Wisconsin, left his rental house firmly behind, and took a one-way flight to Los Angeles. After quickly establishing new roots in L.A., Hunrath wasted no time at all in hooking up with the major UFO players in and around town. That included George Hunt Williamson, George Adamski, and George Van Tassel—three of the most famous, but undeniably controversial, UFO contactees of all time. As well as the three Georges, Hunrath also spent much time getting to know Frank Scully, the author of the very first book on crashed UFO incidents, Behind the Flying Saucers, which Scully cranked out in just six weeks in 1950. But, it was on January 12, 1953 that matters really began to develop.

On the morning of the day in question, Hunrath was hanging out at the home of George Adamski—on Palomar Mountain, California—along with Jerrold Baker, one of Adamski’s faithful followers. Quite out of the blue, Hunrath boasted loudly that only a few days earlier he had met with a group of long-haired, human-like aliens in a desert area on the outskirts of Joshua Tree, California. Not only that, the hippy-like ETs had supposedly given Hunrath a fantastically advanced weapon that had the ability to destroy aircraft in flight. Rather oddly, Hunrath gave the deadly device its very own name: Bosco. Having no love for his own government, or even for his fellow citizens, Hunrath practically bellowed to Adamski that he might even test the weapon on an aircraft or several of the U.S. military, just to see how powerful it really was. An outraged and worried Adamski immediately ordered Hunrath off his property. And that’s when the problems began.

Unknown to Hunrath, Adamski, and Baker, Adamski’s secretary, Lucy McGinnis, overheard Hunrath’s less-than-patriotic rant and was quite understandably unnerved by the whole situation. As a result, she chose to quietly phone the soon-to-be wife of Jerrold Baker, whose name was Irma, to let her know that her fiancé was mixing with distinctly disturbing company, namely Hunrath. Irma utterly freaked out when the details of the aircraft-destroying technology were outlined to her, petrified that her beloved Jerrold might be hauled off to jail by the Feds. So, Irma took her own course of action: She quickly called the FBI.

Within just a few hours, two unsmiling special agents of J. Edgar Hoover’s crime-fighting agency were sitting on Adamski’s couch, grilling him all about Bosco and Uncle Sam’s aircraft, and specifically the potential threat the former posed to the latter. The pair told Adamski they had heard rumors that he, Adamski “had in his possession a machine which could draw ‘flying saucers’ and airplanes down from the sky” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1953). Although this was completely untrue, Adamski realized immediately that the FBI agents were actually talking about Hunrath—who, up until the bust-up earlier on that very same day that led to the FBI arriving, had been fairly chummy with Adamski for two months or so.

Hardly impressed by Adamski’s tales of the alien variety, but finally satisfied that it was Hunrath, and not Adamski, that they needed to focus on, the G-Men left, but not before giving the petrified Adamski a stern order to keep away from Hunrath from now on. Adamski didn’t need telling twice. His path never again crossed with that of Hunrath.

For the next few months, the FBI kept a careful, secret watch on just about every move that Hunrath made, just in case he really was in possession of advanced technology—whether of extraterrestrial or human origin—that could bring down military aircraft, or UFOs, in fatal fashion. Another reason for such intense surveillance of Hunrath was the fact that the FBI uncovered never-substantiated rumors that he was working for the Russians, trying to find out the truth about UFOs for Kremlin paymasters! During this same period, Hunrath convinced Wilbur Wilkinson, an old friend from Wisconsin, to join him in Los Angeles in his quest for the truth about UFOs. Given that Hunrath was very much a crazed Dr. Frankenstein–type to Wilkinson’s meek and subservient Igor, it didn’t take much to persuade Wilkinson to make the move, which occurred in March 1953.

 

Seeking Out the Saucer People

When Wilkinson and his wife reached Los Angeles, they found themselves a pleasant home, settled into their new lives, and became more and more immersed in the UFO issue. Whereas Wilkinson’s wife was content to remain an interested, but somewhat detached and slightly cynical, observer of the phenomenon, Wilkinson himself became overwhelmingly obsessed by all things of a flying saucer nature. On several occasions in the months that followed, Hunrath and Wilkinson traveled to the Prescott, Arizona, home of George Hunt Williamson to further their UFO pursuits.

The three spent hours engaged in nighttime experimentation—under the stars—trying to contact extraterrestrial entities on a telepathic-style basis. Reportedly, this was achieved by taking hits of mescaline and plunging their minds into decidedly altered states. Supposedly, such experimentation worked all too well. On one particular night during the first week of November 1953, Hunrath and Wilkinson received the mind-to-mind invite from their disembodied contacts from above that ultimately relegated them to oblivion, and provoked wild rumors that the pair had been kidnapped, or even killed, by alien entities. With matters having now reached their peak, the two said their goodbyes to Williamson—who was the very last person in the flying saucer field to ever see them—and planned the final countdown to cosmic contact. As to what happened next, it’s still a matter of conjecture, six decades later.

Ten days after the two disappeared, the Los Angeles Mirror newspaper highlighted the mystifying affair in its pages—as well as the attendant theory that their vanishing act was the work of aliens, good, evil, or indifferent. Suddenly, and hardly surprisingly, pretty much the entirety of the rest of the city’s media descended upon the Wilkinson home. When the press arrived they found that the walls of Wilkinson’s den were covered—from almost floor to ceiling—with photos, drawings, press clippings, and more, all on the subject of UFOs.

On top of that, what the Los Angeles Mirror described as strange signs and formulas—but which Mrs. Wilkinson said was actually an interplanetary language—were scrawled on numerous sheets of paper that lay in haphazard, discarded-looking fashion on the floor. When questioned about all of this, Mrs. Wilkinson stated that although she was not overly into the subject of UFOs, her husband certainly was, chiefly as a result of Hunrath’s bullying encouragement. She added—in a fashion that only increased the weirdness—the two men had recently been in contact with an alien name Regga, from the planet Masar. Quite what the Los Angeles media thought of that is anyone’s guess. (“Saucer Investigators in Strange Disappearance,” 1953)

Was it true? Were Hunrath and Wilkinson invited to take a one-way trip to another, faraway world by benevolent aliens? Or was the whole thing a fatal ruse—a terrible ploy engineered by deadly extraterrestrials, as some of their friends and family members suspected? Others speculated that the whole affair could be explained away as mere accident and offered that nothing stranger than engine trouble had probably led to terrible tragedy and death on the mountains of California. Some, however, weren’t quite so sure that the baffling disappearance of Hunrath and Wilkinson was just due to careless pilot error or mechanical malfunction. But those same souls weren’t looking to ET for the answers, either. They were looking across the border or to the government. And not just the U.S. government.

George Hunt Williamson, who, as we have seen, spent considerable time with Hunrath and Wilkinson, was one of the more vocal ones on this matter:

Some people think the two men went to Mexico, but they didn’t have enough fuel for the trip. It has also been reported that Karl is in England and will reappear shortly and also that he has been seen recently in Los Angeles with his hair dyed. He has been called a spaceman, a man possessed of evil spirits, an angel, a member of the F.B.I., and a Russian spy. What he really was no-one [sic] knows (Williamson, 1953).

Despite having occurred more than 60 years ago, the story of the baffling disappearance of Hunrath and Wilkinson refuses to fully roll over and die. Shortly before his death in November 2012, at the age of 81, longtime UFO researcher Jim Moseley shared with me his decades-old notes on the Hunrath-Wilkinson affair, compiled as part of a plan to write an ultimately aborted book on the 1950s-era UFO scene.

In part, Moseley’s December 1953 notes state that certain, pertinent information was brought to his attention by Manon Darlaine, a rich, elderly woman who worked with French Intelligence during the First World War and who later moved to Los Angeles to follow her passion for UFOs. In Moseley’s own words, and according to Darlaine, the aircraft in which Hunrath and Wilkinson vanished “has been found, but the men have not. The plane was dismantled, i.e., taken apart carefully and willfully, but not destroyed or damaged as it would be in a crash. This fact serves to deepen the mystery” (Moseley, 1953).

It certainly does deepen the puzzle. With Darlaine, Williamson, Adamski, Hunrath, and Wilkinson all long gone, and Moseley having now passed on, too, it seems that whatever really led to the disappearance of that curious pair of UFO researchers in the November 1953 skies of California is something destined to remain a mystery.

 

A Plane Crashes; Two Men Die

Despite the long and winding nature of the story, and its undeniable links to the UFO phenomenon, one has to wonder if Karl Hunrath and Wilbur Wilkinson really were taken out of circulation by extraterrestrials or if their vanishing act was carefully staged. There’s a very good reason for that speculation. It revolves around two things in particular. Recall that Hunrath was (a) originally from Racine, Wisconsin and (b) had supposedly been given an advanced alien weapon that could disable and destroy U.S. military aircraft. This was the oddly named Bosco, you will recall. Under very weird circumstances, less than two weeks after Hunrath and Wilkinson went missing, and only a short distance from Racine, two baffling and deadly events occurred, both involving military jets, one of which crashed and the other vanished, never to be seen again.

It all began on the afternoon of November 23, 1953, when a Northrop F-89 Scorpion aircraft, flying out of Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin, plunged from the skies and slammed into the swampy shores of Lake Wingra, a small body of water, also in Madison. On board were pilot First Lieutenant John W. Schmidt and radar operator Captain Glen E. Collins. The story was big news for the people of Madison. It was tragic news, too, because both men were killed in the crash.

Madison’s local newspaper, the Capital Times, on November 24, 1953, noted that one Colonel Shoup, a spokesperson for Truax Field, was “convinced that the men had stuck with their plane in an attempt to keep it from crashing into densely-occupied areas of Madison. He praised the cooperation of police, fireman, members of the press and radio and others in trying to find the men” (“Second Truax Jet, 2 Fliers Missing,” 1953). The newspaper added that a “sudden mechanical failure” caused the crash—a “failure” that occurred so quickly neither Schmidt nor Collins had time to bail out or make a distress call (Ibid.). Significantly, when Major Donald E. Keyhoe—a noted UFO investigator from the 1950s to the 1980s—looked into the matter, he learned from a colleague, Frank Edwards, that “several witnesses said a saucer flew near the plane, just before it dived into a swamp” (Ibid.).

 

The distance from Karl Hunrath’s hometown of Racine, Wisconsin, to Madison, Wisconsin, was just 104 miles by road, which would have presented no problems in transporting the allegedly shoebox-sized Bosco and deploying it somewhere in the vicinity of Madison.

Breaking News! HAARP Granted Last-Minute Reprieve As Air Force Considers Handoff

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The HAARP element array in Gakona, Alaska. The Air Force said Wednesday that it will delay a planned dismantling of the site in hopes that it might transfer operating authority to another agency. HAARP photo

Jupiter’s radio signals could help find aliens

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Astrobiologists are excited about the possibility of extraterrestrial life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Evidence suggests this icy moon is home to a vast subsurface ocean. But until tools land on the moon to drill through the ice, ice-penetrating radar is the best method researchers have to confirm the existence of an ocean below the moon’s surface. Unfortunately, Jupiter’s own radio waves interfere with this process. But researchers believe they can use these radio waves to their advantage.

Jupiter and its moon Europa. (Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser)

Phys.org explains that Jupiter’s radio waves come from clouds of electrically charged particles trapped in the planet’s magnetic field. In order to cut through the interference from Jupiter’s loud radio signals, “a mission probing Jupiter’s moons would need a relatively strong transmitter, a massive device that might be difficult to power and fit aboard the limited confines of a spacecraft.”

But rather than putting a transmitter on a spacecraft to fight against Jupiter’s radio signals, a new study suggests harnessing these radio waves to scan the planet’s moons, including Europa. The study’s lead author, Andrew Romero-Wolf at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains, “The technique we are developing could not only provide a solution to that problem, it could turn it into a strength.” He continues,

The great strength of this technique is that it doesn’t need a transmitter, just a receiver . . . A scanning system for subsurface oceans in icy moons potentially already exists. All we have to do is go there and listen.

As Phys.org describes, this process, known as interferometric reflectometry, would work by positioning a spacecraft between Jupiter and one of its icy moons, which would monitor decametric emissions from Jupiter and echoes of signals reflected off the moon. This process would enable researchers to determine the thickness of the moon’s ice shell and its ocean’s depth.

Artist’s depiction of Europa’s subsurface ocean. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Experts believe Europa has two-to-three times the volume of all the liquid water on Earth, so Europa’s ocean is likely to have a wide variety of ecosystems. And a recent study suggests that the building blocks for life are common on this icy moon.

Romero-Wolf is excited about the information that can be acquired by utilizing interferometric reflectometry. But he cautions, “”Unambiguous observation of a subsurface ocean or liquids in the ice of Europa is only the first step towards identifying the possibility for life . . . What we are proposing will not be able to tell us whether there are living organisms in Europa, but it could provide strong evidence for that possibility.”

This new study will be published in the journal Icarus.

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The Menhune of Hawaii – Ancient Race or Fictional Fairytale?

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In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune are said to be an ancient race of people small in stature, who lived in Hawaii before settlers arrived from Polynesia. Many scholars attribute ancient structures found on the Hawaiian Islands to the Menehune. However, others have argued that the legends of the Menehune are a post-European contact mythology and that no such race existed.

The mythology of the Menehune is as old as the beginnings of Polynesian history. When the first Polynesians arrived in Hawaii, they found dams, fish-ponds, roads, and even temples, all said to have been built by the Menehune who were superb craftspeople. Some of these structures still exist, and the highly-skilled craftsmanship is evident.  According to legend, each Menehune was a master of a certain craft and had one special function they accomplished with great precision and expertise. They would set out at dusk to build something in one night, and if this was not achieved, it would be abandoned.

Some scholars, such as folklorist Katharine Luomala, theorize that the Menehune were the first settlers of Hawaii, descendants of the Marquesas islanders who were believed to have first occupied the Hawaiian Islands from around 0 to 350 AD. When the Tahitian invasion occurred in about 1100 AD, the first settlers were subdued by the Tahitians, who referred to the inhabitants as ‘manahune’ (which means ‘lowly people’ or ‘low social status’ and not diminutive in stature). They fled to the mountains and later came to be called ‘Menehune’.  Proponents of this theory point to an 1820 census which listed 65 people as Menehune.

Luomala claims that the Menehune are not mentioned in pre-contact mythology and therefore the name does not refer to an ancient race of people. However, this argument holds little weight as most accounts of the past were passed down through word-of-mouth from one generation to the next.

If Luomala, and other scholars in her camp, is correct, and there was no ancient race of skilled craftspeople that predated the Polynesians, then there must be an alternative explanation for the ancient constructions of advanced design, which predated any known population in Hawaii. However, no alternative explanations exist and most history books still maintain that the Polynesians were the first inhabitants of Hawaii, some 1,500 years ago. So let’s examine some of the ancient constructions that have been attributed to the Menehune in the mythology of the region.

 Alekoko  Fishpond Wall at Niumalu, Kauaʻi

Alekoko, Kauai: Menehune Fishpond. Photo source.

The Alekoko Fishpond, sometimes called the Menhune Fishpond, is one of the finest examples of ancient Hawaiian aquaculture. A lava rock wall between the pond and the Hulei’a River, which is 900 feet (274 m) long and 5 feet (1.5 m) high, was built to create a dam across a portion of the river in order to trap young fish until they grew large enough to consume.  The stones that were used come from Makaweli village, some 25 miles (40 km) away. It is considered to be an unexplained engineering achievement and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Hawaiian legend states that the pond was built in one night by the Menehune, who formed an assembly line from the fishpond location to Makaweli, passing stones one-by-one from start to end point.

The Ceremonial Site of Necker Island

Heiau at Mokumanamana (Necker Island). Photo source.

Necker Island is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Few signs of long-term human habitation have been found. However, the island contains 52 archaeological site with 33 ceremonial heiau (basalt upright stones), believed to be celestially oriented, and stone artifacts much like those found in the main Hawaiian Islands.  The heiau vary only slightly in design, but generally feature rectangular platforms, courts and upright stones. One of the largest of these ceremonial sites measures 18.6 meters by 8.2 meters. Eleven upright stones, of what are believed to be the original 19, are still standing.

Many anthropologists believe that the island was a ceremonial and religious site. According to the myths and legends of the people of Kauai, which lies to the southeast, Necker Island was the last known refuge for the Menehune.  According to the legend, the Menehune settled on Necker after being chased off Kaua’i by the stronger Polynesians and subsequently built the various stone structures there. Visits to the island are said to have started a few hundred years after the main Hawaiian Islands were inhabited, and ended a few hundred years before European contact.

The Kīkīaola Ditch at Waimea, Kauaʻi

Kikiaola facing stones. Photo source.

Kīkīaola is a historic irrigation ditch located near Waimea on the island of Kauai. Also known as the Menehune Ditch, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1984.  Hawaiians built many stone-lined ditches to irrigate ponds for growing taro (kalo), but very rarely employed dressed stone to line ditches. The 120 finely cut basalt blocks that line about 200 feet of the outer wall of the Menehune Ditch make it not just exceptional, but “the acme of stone-faced ditches” in the words of archaeologist Wendell C. Bennett. It is purported to have been built by the Menehune.

To date, no human skeletal remains of a physically small race of people have ever been found on Kaua’I or on any other Hawaiian islands. While this does not disprove that a race of small people existed, it does draw the truth behind the legend into question. Nevertheless, there is compelling evidence, both archaeological and in the numerous legends passed down over generations, that suggests that there was indeed an ancient race of highly skilled people who inhabited the Hawaiian islands long before the Polynesians arrived 

Featured image: The Menhune. Credit: butterfrog

By April Holloway

References

The Menehune: An Ancient Race – Hawaiian Encyclopaedia

Legend of the Menehunes no small part of Hawaii – by Arthur Ribbel

Menehune – Encyclopedia Mythica

Stories of the Menehunes – by Thos G. Thrum

Alekoko, Menehune Fishpond, Kauai – GoHawaii.com

The Menehune – Mythical Realm

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Fantastically Wrong: The Surprising Truth Behind the Horrifying Banshee

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A resting banshee, from Thomas Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1834). Flying around people’s houses and screaming at all hours of the night, it turns out, is hard work. And that castle over there has a ridiculous perimeter to cover. Source

In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, the Grim Reaper visits a lovely little dinner party to inform the guests that unfortunately they’re dead. After refusing wine and poking a man in the eye, he leads them to heaven, where there is, of course, a nice musical number.

Conspicuously absent for a British production, though, is the banshee of Irish and Scottish mythology, an ugly, nasty hag clad either in white or gray. A kind of fairy, she’s said to soar around your house, screaming like a manic demon to not so subtly let you know you’re about to die, usually in a violent manner. But unlike the Grim Reaper, this lady doesn’t murder you herself. She’s more of a hands-off type of death omen.

A fixture in U.K. myth-telling for some 1,000 years, particularly among elite families with a penchant for making death particularly dramatic, the banshee can also take the form of a beautiful woman weeping instead of wailing, all upset about your looming death. Also known as the Washer of the Ford, she can sometimes be seen scrubbing her bloodied robe in a river and preening her long hair with a silver comb.

Have you seen this woman? Do you suspect she’s been buzzing your house? Here’s how to prove it.

Wait until night falls, then put a caged rat in your front yard (stick with me here). When you hear that banshee come screaming and rattling that cage, hit the lights. You’ll find one of the night’s most majestic creatures, the barn owl, probably looking a bit pissed off about its rudely inaccessible dinner.

This ghostly creature has gorgeously white underparts and a scream like you wouldn’t believe (have a listen below), and has for centuries served as the likely source of the banshee myth. Far from the legend, though, this is an exceedingly graceful critter whose wails echo across every continent save for Antarctica.

Hunting primarily at night, the barn owl gathers the scant light with its large eyes and uses its entire heart-shaped face to funnel the waves to ears right next to its peepers. Its ears are actually shaped and oriented differently, with one pointing down and the other pointing up, like sloth from The Goonies.

With each ear processing sounds quite differently, the owl’s brain analyzes the variations between the ears to pinpoint prey. It’s so effective that the owl can hunt with sound alone, homing in on rodents rummaging around in the grass below. Once it locks on, it dives and pounces with its unusually long legs—an adaptation to hunting in tall grasses.

Barn owls are most charismatic when you can’t hear them screaming your ear off. Image: Phil Haynes/Flickr

As for that beautiful plumage, it might seem odd for a nocturnal hunter to be clad in white. It’s likely a measure, though, to break up its silhouette. This is known as countershading. If moonlight hits, say, a uniformly brown owl, it creates a gradient of a lighter top side and darker bottom side, manifesting as a silhouette for potential prey on the ground. With its bright white underbelly, the barn owl counteracts this shadowing effect, thus breaking up its profile. And the owl’s brownish top side helps it blend with the foliage below, masking it from its own predators above, such as eagles.

The feathers are also highly adapted for silent flight, with extremely fine fringes that reduce turbulence, and therefore noise. The owls are positively packed with these soft, velvety feathers that help absorb sounds, far more than most birds their size (the critters are positively scrawny without their feathers on—like, hilariously so). And the intense curvature of their wings boosts lift, so the owls can cut down on the number of wing beats required to stay aloft, yet another way to reduce noises that potentially scare off prey.

Such does the critter stalk the night in total silence, save for screaming its head off now and then. But at least it isn’t bloodying up our rivers with its dirty laundry.

References:
Rosen, B. (2008) The Mythical Creatures Bible. Sterling Publishing

Leach, M. (1949) Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. Harper & Row

Source: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/fantastically-wrong-wailing-banshee/

Mystery Monster Eats 3m Long Great White Shark Whole (Video)

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Orbs: Paranormal Or A Digital Camera Reflection

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Orbs – A digital camera anomaly or something paranormal?

After taking several hundred photos while on my holiday trip to Malta I got to thinking about orbs. I usually capture a few amongst my pictures or even a ghost! This time though nothing unusual or out of this world.

The Ghost Photo of  Broomfield Cottage – see here

Of course many will say that the likes of orbs or globes are down to the digital cameras we now use. The usual explanation is that orbs are caused by light bouncing back from a shiny or reflective surface, which the human eye doesn’t notice. And yet, there does seem to be true orbs caught on camera – but what are they?

Reading opinions of paranormal orbs they seem to fall into several categories. You take your pick as to which one might be true. Here are five popular suggestions:

1. Orbs are the souls of spirits manifesting as a circle or ball of energy.
2. They are energy emitted by objects and/or people which a spirit can then use for its own energy.
3. Orbs are similar to ghosts in that they are energy from a past event that has somehow been captured within the atmosphere of a place or building. The stronger the emotional event, the brighter the orb. A bitter conflict would register high on such a scale.
4. Orbs are a method by which spirits make themselves known.
5. They are viewing instruments for spirits in another dimension.

There is another alternative mentioned by the writer Theresa Cheung:

I guess we all believe in want we want to believe.

Other Orb or Ghost Posts:
The Photo Of The Ghost Of Broomfield Cottage Tawstock
The Ghost Photo Of The National Maritime Museum
Is This 13th Century Cottage Haunted With Orbs

Source: http://www.67notout.com/2014/06/orbs-paranormal-or-digital-camera.html

Daily UFO Headlines 6/12/14

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• The lasting allure of the flying saucer – BBC News
• Supernatural researcher shows Iowa’s unexplained – Sioux City Journal
• Does the Bible mention UFOs? – Dearborn Country Register
• Radio signals from Jupiter could aid search for life – Phys.Org
• MeerKAT project rolls on – Citizen

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-61214/28248

Amazing, Schoolgirl films weird Mysterious fire dragon flies around in the sky (Video)

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Video Description: This incredible video taken by a school girl captured weird dancing lights as they floated above her house for several minutes.

Katie Real 11 year old, saw a blazing light outside bedroom window in Northampton, She Used laptop to film it dance in the sky for 39 seconds before it disappeared
Her mother, Fiona Fearon, 30, said: ‘It looked like a ball of fire – it was weird’, She called local airfield the next day but they said they knew nothing about it

Soure: Weird Fireballs In The Sky Captured On Camera

Planet Earth had Two Moons and The Missing Moon Still Exists – Proof by NASA

Giant Mounds Found All Around the Earth!

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(Bahrain, 4000-year-old burial mounds) In fact, these mounds were found on an island with people who lived off the sea - classic "originator" characteristic.

Above -  This Russian mound skull from a 2500-year-old mound had a necklace they call the "Cleopatra Necklace" because it looked "Egyptian" (remember the finds in America believed to have Egyptian looking heiroglyphs and art? The signature of the "Originators" art and language seen around the world and influencing others?) 

 

Does she kind of look like the Humboldt Sink "robust otamid" (Sloped-forehead skull) found in Oregon that I wrote about? *Notice the thrusting carnivorous robust jaw on the Russian mound skull and this Humboldt Sink one compared to the "homo sapiens" one below - 

 

 

Syria-Turkey border mound

The interesting thing about all these mounds found around the world (besides the fact they were constructed nearly identically and shaped alike) is the very real fact that, if man was circumventing the globe and influencing each other's building in the BCE (before common era or what was known as Before Christ) era, they were not leaving their other cultural attributes. There should be Mesopotamian writings in Siberia and the Americas and pottery designs and such that are equivalent, as well as the skulls of those other culture people who do not belong there. 

 

What we are left with is the possibility that such structures were being built around the world by a singular group that influenced incoming homo sapiens to imitate and initiate their own builds. The universal language of these "Originators" allowed similarities in early cuneiform writing around the world simultaneously. In fact, in Africa, they found that Heidelbergensis and Neanderthal, who came before homo sapiens in the continent, left tools behind that the homo sapiens borrowed and used. Those two originators also left the continent of Africa about 700,000 years before homo sapiens emerged from Africa to explore the world. What did they do for those 700,000 years???  How about build more knowledge and world exploration that we would cobble onto at a later date? In other words, they did all the hard early learning for us in the evolutionary process.

Source: It is generally agreed that true writing of language (not only numbers) was invented independently in at least two places: Mesopotamia (3200 BCE) and Mesoamerica around 600 BCE... It is debated whether writing systems were developed completely independently in Egypt around 3200 BCE and China around 1200 BCE or whether the appearance of writing in either or both places was due to culture diffusion.... brought by traders or an already-literate civilization!!!! (DING! DING! DING!)

 

What we are left with is a universal glue that holds all cultures together even when homo sapiens were not circumventing the globe in ships thousands of years BC. What was the giver of the Bronze age and the launcher of our great and fast knowledge? The influences we had since 80,000 years ago when leaving Africa - those who were the Originators.

Let's end this on a very very weird note - the Mima Mounds - 

These mounds are still a mystery as to how they were formed, though it is believed to have been an act of nature.

Source: http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2014/06/giant-mounds-found-all-around-earth.html